Re: (PM) K56Flex Info, Zoom v1.2 info, 3.7.2c3 info (fwd)

Kevin A. Smith (kevin@ascend.com)
Thu, 05 Feb 1998 11:33:42 -0800

At 09:58 PM 2/3/98 -0700, Stephen Fisher wrote:
>
>I've dialed into an Ascend Max 4004 with a Zoom 56k external and connected
>at first at a K56Flex data rate and transferred data (it said it was > 33.6k
>and the K56 light was on) and about 10-15 seconds into the session it
>switched to the V.34 light and kept doing data transfers.
>
>I dunno how it is possible.. they're both Rockwell - perhaps something from
>Rockwell? AFAIK K56 & V34 use different encoding and signalling things
>though.. perhaps it was just lying to show that it connected fast then
>showed the correct rate? Little rockwell "feature" ? :)

It is possible for a K56Flex connection to retrain and fall back
to V.34, but it's not possible for a V.34 connection to retrain
and fall forward to K56.

Kevin

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