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In article <334fa770.3899818@news.concentric.net>,
Mike <laptev@concentric.net> wrote:
>On 10 Apr 1997 20:27:46 GMT, airborne@wizvax.net (Willie Williams)
>wrote:
>
>>Paul (hitech@nospam.net) wrote:
>>>Just wondering if there are any ISP's in the Albany area that supports
>>>USR's X2 56K modems. Anyone know?
>>
>>I really don't know, but the talk is that even USR won't support the
>>X2 in a few months...
>>
>>
>
>Whomever told you that is a moron.
>
>	As a owner of 3COM stock (3com just bought US Robotics) - I
>follow this pretty closely, and USR is rapidly becoming the standard
>for X2.  But even if USR doesn't win, all of their modems are fully
>software upgradable.
>
>	Now to answer the original question:  go to www.usr.com - they
>have a list on their page of providers in any specified area that
>support X2.
>
>Good luck!

I can't speak for all the ISP's in this area, but since I do run one
and have some idea of what some of the competition is using, every ISP
I'm famalier with is using equipment from vendors who will be supporting
K56Flex and when available, the ITU 56K standard.

My best guess is that like HST and other proprietary standards USR has
produced, everyone will end up supporting the ITU approved standard,
until then the various modem makers will just muddy the waters and make
the modems job harder and take longer to negotiate mutually agreeable
standards.

I would not trust the USR pages listings as I know of several ISP's who
were listed who didn't know they were on the list and will not support X2.
This was the result of erroneous information being reported to usr.

I expect to be able to state Wizvax's plans around the end of this
week.  The paperwork is floating across my desk right now and I'm waiting
for the final i's to be dotted and t's crossed on it before sticking my
foot in my mouth;)