From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 5 08:36:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA03704 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 08:36:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from web1.rocketmail.com (web1.rocketmail.com [205.180.57.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA03699 for ; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 08:36:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hand-h@rocketmail.com) Message-ID: <19980805152430.27701.rocketmail@web1.rocketmail.com> Received: from [146.18.173.200] by web1; Wed, 05 Aug 1998 08:24:30 PDT Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 08:24:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Michael Horton Subject: Re: US robotics 56k modems To: John , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I believe this is called "a distinction without a difference". Very enjoyable to see at times but a waste of bandwidth. HTH, MH ---John wrote: > > In article <199808020206.VAA08645@cedar.netten.net>, Michael Horton > writes > >My guess is that the V.90 is a bad standard or that X2 and Kflex > >manufacturers implement it very poorly. (I have heard that the final > >standard is not expected until the end of the year and what is now called > >the V.90 standard is actually an interim standard.) > > No. > > v90 is due (from what I've heard) for ratification (ITUT I think) > sometime in September. v90 draft proposal was issued earlier. X2 and k56 > flex are proprietary - i.e. they are not 'standards'. v90 presently is > not ratified, and therefore not a standard. It is a draft proposal only. > > So what are these v90 modems? Perhaps they followed the draft. I would > wait until the actual standard was ratified fully if I were you. > > -- > John > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message