Hello, Wayne.
-=> WAYNE CHIRNSIDE wrote to ROY J. TELLASON <=-

 WC> Seems this KFLEX standard modem was used in lots of systems.
 WC> Compaq, H.P., NEC, ect. in many incarnations and all crapped out
 WC> when V.90 was superceded.

Not necessarily so.  Checking the local access numbers for Juno email
and internet here, they still have a couple of numbers for each which
still support the K56Flex standard.  And V.90 isn't _superseded_ - - it
is what I use to access email and internet every day, through two
different providers.

 RJT> I've heard of KFLEX but don't recall much about it.

 WC> Used to work fine in this incarnation until v.92 protocols
 WC> were adopted now my software modem is a paperweight.
 WC> It was one of two competing standards... KFLEX lost.

But as I noted above, at least for Juno,  K56Flex is still supported
by them to some extent, whereas X2 is not.   As 56K modems were being
rushed to market, two competing standards emerged.  Rockwell had
K56Flex, and USR/3Com had X2. The conflict was resolved in 1998-99 by
adoption of the V.90 standard. In many cases, modems under one or the
other standard could be "upgraded" to V.90 by flashing the firmware.
I'm not sure about soft-modems, but I am sure that I have flashed USR
modems from X2 up to V.90.

V.92 came later.  Maybe your ISP stopped supporting K56Flex altogether?
Or maybe you could look over the access numbers and they may still be
supporting K56Flex like Juno does, under a different dialup number??

Good luck - - -  JimH.

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