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June 12
A reader named Simba notes lower ISDN prices in PacBell
territory. Beginning August 1st, PacBell
will charge just $29.95 per month for 150 hours of ISDN use,
with two B channels.
The
Montreal Gazette reports that Nortel has received $550
million in new orders and has secured a deal with Microsoft
for its 1 megabit modem, which uses the G. Lite version of
ADSL.
AOL announced that females now account for 52%
of AOL users.
V.90 Upgrades
Mike Fung spotted Askey
V.90 upgrades for several of their models.
Chun-Chieh Liu found Viking
Components V.90 upgrades for their ISA and PCMCIA card
modems.
Joe Phillips discovered Magitronic
V.90 upgrades for x2 and K56flex models.
Cardinal
is shipping V.90 upgrades for the model 8606 and 310-0029.
Owners of Digicom
Systems' ModemBlaster can now download V.90 upgrades.
Shiva
has V.90 upgrade code, but cautions that it is not as stable
as their K56flex code.
Smart
Modular Technology has V.90 upgrades for the Rapid
Transit 56K modem, which was also sold by Apex Data.
TDK
Systems' V.90 Upgrade Wizard will upgrade the
CyberExpress 5600 and Global Freedom 5660 PCMCIA modem
cards. The wizard is available for Windows 95, Windows NT,
and Macintosh.
June 10
I've updated the V.90
Upgrade FAQ. In particular, there is now more
information on controlling K56flex and V.90 on Rockwell
chipset modems.
InfoWorld
looks at 3Com and Microsoft's latest DSL efforts.
Archtek has a new line of V.90
speakerphone modems, available in models that support
V.90 and K56flex, or V.90 and x2.
V.90 upgrades
John Arrington found V.90 upgrades for the 3Com/U.S.
Robotics Sportster #84004.
Dana Baggett spotted Global
Village V.90 upgrades for the x2 Teleports on Version
Tracker.
Jason Walls notes that Edge of Australia has KTX
V.90 firmware upgrades for Australian modems.
Joe Moschinger spied Macintosh V.90 firmware on Diamond
Multimedia's beta site.
Vincent Simon notes that the package includes a downgrader
to take the modem back to K56flex, should you have any
problems with V.90.
June 8
The
Sydney Morning Herald looks at preemptive
countermeasures Australian ISPs are taking as AOL prepares
to move into their market.
Joe Toste asked me to note that the new Zoom PCI modem
mentioned on Friday is a controllerless modem (a software
based modem). For words of warning about soft modems, see
our special
report.
V.90 Upgrades
A reader named Don was the first to spot Diamond
Multimedia's V.90 upgrades for many of their 56K models.
Steve McDonald found V.90 upgrades for Well
(Origo) modems.
Stephen Krzanowski spied Eiger
Labs V.90 upgrades.
Graham Marsh has more information about the V.90 upgrades
that appeared, then disappeared from Hayes' web site:
As a follow-up to the "disappearing" Hayes
Ext Accura model 5670/5674 v.90 upgrades, the files are
still available at the site ftp://ftp.hayes.com/webonly/.
The files are A2083ev.exe and acc2083e.exe. They
correspond to models 5670 (w/sprkphn) and 5674 (w/o
sprkphn) respectively.
So although they're not available from the
www.56kstandard.com, they can still be d/l'ed from the
ftp site, although users may prefer to wait until the
website re-displays them.
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