If you have a situation in which you can isolate your analog callers from
your V.90/K56Flex callers (different hunt groups), it can make sense to try
3.8b17 now.
What you would like to do is not say anything about it for a while, but you
can't: someone with a USR V.90/X2 will tell his friend with a
Rockwell-based K56Flex modem that "hey...V.90 works now", and the friend
will go out and "upgrade" his modem to V.90. Since Rockwell doesn't speak
V.90 in a way that Lucent understands, yet, the friend's connections slow
down to V.34 speeds.
So you have to say you're doing V.90, but if your (the customer's) modem
uses Rockwell chips or you (the customer) don't know that it doesn't, don't
upgrade yet.
If you can't separate your V.34 users from your PCM users, you probably
shouldn't try 3.8b17, since some of your V.34 users will suddenly have
connection problems (most of which--but seemingly not all--can be resolved
by spending sufficient tech support resources on your part).
[Oddly, we also have some users with V.34/V.34+ who connect better with
3.8b17 than they do with the USR MP/8 and MP/16 modems in our analog pools.]
As to when...
Ask again in December. We'll probably be able to tell you when things
got better. That is, "when?" doesn't have an answer.
--John
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