Re: X2 Speed Suport

Sherwood Pekelo (spekelo@iav.com)
Mon, 7 Apr 1997 11:12:44 -1000 (HST)

On Mon, 7 Apr 1997, Jason Fesler wrote:

> At 02:21 PM 12/29/96 -0200, you wrote:
> >List!
> >
> >Is X2 Speed of USRobotics Modens supported for Portmaster 2E-30?
> >If not, is there any prevision for this?
>
> Portmaster 2E's are *terminal servers only*. They are not modems.
> You will have whatever capability you plug into the RS-232 port.
> You *can* have X2, if you get all USR Courier I-modems (ask them
> for which models specifically). However, you may not find this
> cost effective..
>
> The other note: USR's 53k is one-direction only - Rockwell and Lucent
> will be bidirectional 56k... Food for thought.

K56Flex will be?!?! uhm, from my readings... Rockwell currently will
support 33.6Kbps upstream Lucent potentially 40Kbps upstream ... Hmm,
I-modems? I'm guessing these will be ISDN Line type, so you still can't
use POTS....

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Aloha,

Sherwood