Re: v.fast?
Kevin Smith (kevin@ascend.com)
Thu, 14 Aug 1997 11:01:07 -0700
At 05:46 AM 8/14/97 -1000, Sherwood Portmaster-List wrote:
>On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Jake Messinger wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Sherwood Portmaster-List wrote:
>>
>> > On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Andrew Foster wrote:
>> >
>> > > Does the PM3 support v.fast properly (at all?) - some users with
v.fast's
>> > > don't seem to be able to connect at higher than 14.4k (this is using
ComOS
>> > > 3.5.1b20.au)
>> >
>> > 8) archives will tell you that non-ITU standards are not supported... so
>> > v.fast modems are limited to 14.4Kbps ...
>>
>> This is true. MANY of the v.fast people out there who were getting 28800
>> to their isp are now getting 14400 because their isp switched. We used to
>> use Optima racks, and upgraded and broke all of our V.FAST (or was that
>> V.FC i cant remember) customers.
>>
>> We switched em to new modems. Most of our clients wanted new voice modems
>> anyway.
>>
>> I wonder if Ascend supports it?
>
>If I remember Kevin's statement, from a month or so back, they were
>looking at putting back one of the old protocols.. V.FC I think into their
>modem code.
>
>Kevin, got the scoops?
It was added back into the server code in the latest release from Rockwell. We
have not yet released that version, as it's in regression testing - but it was
confirmed to be there.
Kevin