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Harmony Multimedia is shipping PCI K56flex modems now, and expects to ship V.90 modems by March 23rd.
PC Week's David Bardes looks at some of the technical changes in V.90.
3Com sent email to registered Courier owners announcing the imminent release of V.90 firmware for Courier modems. The complete announcement is in our press area. Here are the highlights:
More info about your phone line
Note: after this item was run in 56K.COM, so many people used the service that it had to be shut down, so it is no longer available.
Alan Sterger posted this neat tip to comp.dcom.modems. Using the UNIX finger command, do a "finger xxxyyy@nccom.com" where "xxx" is the area code and "yyy" is the first three digits of the phone number. The results will give you information about your number, or your ISP's dialin number. If you don't have access to UNIX, download a finger program. You can also try a Web finger gateway, though most of the ones Yahoo! lists are either AWOL or nonfunctional.
Note that not all numbers are registered with this database, so this will work for some numbers and not others.
Here is some example output:
bash$ finger 423977@nccom.com [nccom.com] MAVLTNMADS0 DMH 6843 2236 474 9419 KNVLTNWH93T KNVLTNWH93T 6844 2234 TN MARYVILLE LATA 474 is KNOXVILLE TENNESSEE OCN 9419 is SOUTH CENTRAL BELL in GA SWITCHING ENTITY: MAVLTNMADS0 DMH OCN 9419 (SOUTH CENTRAL BELL in GA) 285 S HALL RD MARYVILLE, TN 37801 All End-Offices/Prefixes at same location: MAVLTNMADS0 DMH: 423/379 423/681 423/970 423/977 423/981 423/982 423/983 423/984 423/985 Total, 9 prefixes Tandems: SWITCHING ENTITY: KNVLTNWH93T D12 OCN 9419 (SOUTH CENTRAL BELL in GA) 1701 S WINSTON R KNOXVILLE, TN 37917
Lucent has responded to the Boardwatch cover story with a press release noting that Lucent-based K56flex modems took the top three slots in C|Net/Computers.com's performance tests of 56K modems. The press release has been added to 56K.COM's special report on the controversial Boardwatch story.
Global Village expects to ship V.90 modems by late March. V.90 upgrades for existing GV x2 and K56flex modems are expected in April.
A piece by Ben Heskett of News.com discusses a security problem with Ascend's software for MAX and Pipeline products. Ascend MAXes are used by thousands of ISPs to provide dial-up modem and ISDN service.
Wired News reports that Network Solutions will lower domain registration and maintenance fees on April 1st. The price to register a new domain will drop from $100 to $70. Annual maintenance fees will drop from $50 to $35.
A Wired News piece by James Glave covers criticism of Keynote Systems' analysis of Internet backbone provider performance
Jonathan Marshal of The San Francisco Chronicle reports on DSL access in the Bay Area.
Today's news was a Special Report on the Boardwatch magazine March 98 Cover story. It has been archived in a special report that is being updated with new information as it comes in.
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