Re: V.FC support for the PM3

Christer Olsson (cox@clavicula.mednet.gu.se)
Thu, 24 Jul 1997 16:58:30 +0200 (CET)

On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Oystein Homelien wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Sherwood Portmaster-List wrote:
>
> > Marty, explain why.... V.FC is not a standard, but rather an interim
> > protocol, like HST and V.Fast, thus is not supported...
> > Livingston has always announced their support of the Standards set forth
> > by the ITU...
> > Thus the V.FC, will not work, but v.32bis (is this the 14.4Kbps protocol?)
> > will...
>
> The problem I am facing is that we are expected to support V.FC even
> though it is not a standard, and the Total Controls (which our competitors
> use) do support it as far as I can see.

V.FC-modems is rare and most of them can be upgraded to V.34. In
practical all V.FC modems sold in sweden was sold with free upgrade to
V.34. I tested some really old V.FC but the was not really usable (too
buggy).