> I assume that the reason everyone is screaming about the V.90 delay is
> because they want to support USR client modems at 56K speeds.
That's part of it. The other part of it is that it is increasingly difficult
to find K56Flex modems for sale new. Customers buying new modems today
regardless of brand are finding v.90 on the shelves. The ability to support
those customers is a Good Thing(tm).
Further complicating things are existing Rockwell-based client modems that
can be configured to do only K56Flex or v.90, but not both due to lack of
sufficient flash memory. If you have a client with one of these modems that
wants to access your service and also connect to other online services using
v.90 then it's a big hassle to re-write the flash every time.
> If you have a PM3, then when you bought it, you knew you couldn't support
> USR client modems at 56K speeds. PM3s and USR client modems have been
> incompatible at 56K speeds for over a year now. Why the big rush now?
See above. The client side environment is changing toward v.90.
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