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From: tnixon@hayes.uucp
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.fax
Subject: Re: best value/buy in a class 2 modem
Message-ID: <4027.285de854@hayes.uucp>
Date: 18 Jun 91 11:02:44 GMT
References: <1991Jun17.175919.27756@sooner.palo-alto.ca.us>
Organization: Hayes Microcomputer Products, Norcross, GA
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In article <1991Jun17.175919.27756@sooner.palo-alto.ca.us>,
cwm@sooner.palo-alto.ca.us (Chris Moore) writes: 

> i'm looking for suggestions on the best class 2 fax modem to purchase.
> cost is my first criteria and then all the others in terms of quality,
> etc.

I MUST caution you that the Class 2 standard is NOT YET COMPLETE.  
Your FOREMOST criteria in selecting a modem should be a firm 
commitment from the vendor to upgrade the modem's firmware to match 
the standard when it is published!  Otherwise, you may have a modem 
that is based on an early draft of the standard (and some companies 
are selling these!), that will be incompatible with the vast 
majority of the software that will be coming out for class 2 modems.

The standard will be completed within the next few months.  It will 
go out for industry ballot in August, which should end in October,
and the standard should be published by the end of the year.  It
would be best if you could wait until then (you'll have many
additional choices, including Hayes, then) and but a modem that 
claims compliance to the actual standard rather than a draft, but if
you can't then be sure your modem is going to be upgraded. 

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