Hello John,
RG>>I have one I got thru the tradeup program on the Hayes website, it
>> sits on the BBS.  Fairly good modem, fax, 56K flashable when the
>> ITU-T finalizes the '56k' standards.  It's a V.34 with a Rockwell
>> chip until the flash upgrade comes out.  Only thing I can complain
>> about is the 'user manual' is on diskette, ready for loading on
>> Windows 3.x or better.  There is a manual on the Hayes site in
>> file/text form but I haven't bothered to get it.
> So I must download a file to make it a true 56k? I suppose the user
> manual was a money saver? But it is a pain in the butt when you
> want to read up on something.
Yep, you'll have to d/l a file to make it K56Flex and/or call a bbs or
site on the Internet to "load" it.  USR is this way with x2; with my 3
Couriers I d/l'ed the flashrom code, ran it in, (it is an executable
file), and then had to call an 800# with the modem to get it
'activated.'
And, yeah, the online manual sucks.
RG>> If I had it to do over again, I'd buy an external 3Com/USR
>> Sportster and have x2 now -- and a manual I could browse through.
> I don't I would. All my previous modems were Rockwell. But I did look
> long and hard at the USR.
As long as they'll talk to each other, I really couldn't care if the
modem was Rockwell or TI or Motorola...but my ISP currently supports x2
and that's what I surf with. 
Later...
 Rick
  rgraham@ionet.net
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