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Curt,

Any chance that the other people who have purchased the modems from ExecPC can
get the V90 codes?



In article <6dd9dh$psn@newsops.execpc.com>,
  curt@execpc.com wrote:
>
> >I am the proud possessor of a first-release USR WinModem, not their best
> >implementation of DSP PCK technology. It was a "mere" 28.8 when shipped.
> >Running 33.6 drivers downloaded in November I'm seeing consistant 31.2
> >connects and 2.7k/s downloads, aided by living less than a mile
> >Northwest of the 25th St CO. I haven't bothered buying X2 drivers
> >because I've been waiting for the v90 dust to settle, but the
> >competition's going to have to do the new spec a whole lot better than
> >3Com (nee USR) for it to make sense to buy new hardware. There are a
> >whole lot of folks out there with  similarly upgradeable hardware like
> >mine, so the only real question will be when will the right software be
> >available?
>
> Quite honestly, the winmodem may never work properly.  The whole
> concept behind the thing is flawed, and it was a serious black eye to
> USR for producing such a modem.  Having the computer's CPU do the
> data compression and error correction to save $10 in production costs
> was just plain ignorant.
>
> My advice:  When you upgrade, come in and buy one of our used USR
> Courier modems when we have them for sale again.  Probably after
> our March promotion.  I've been hunting around a lot of our analog
> modems in Milwaukee lately, and should have around 450 of them for
> sale come April.
>
> The modems will come with X2 installed, at a minimum, and maybe
> v.90 code if that software is available when we start the sale.
>
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> | Curtis V. Shambeau  |  curt@execpc.com  |  http://www.execpc.com/~curt
> |                         Executive Vice President, Exec-PC, Inc.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>


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