your argument is good exeept for a few things.
 > And in addition to speed, let's not forget the additional 
 > technologies in the 288s.  The 288s can retrain speeds.  That means 
 > if the line quality drops or increases, they can lower or raise the 
the retraining feature was available on the 14.4's also.
 > Right now, the biggest limitation to the 288s is the FCC.  They only 
 > require phone companies to maintain FAX lines at 14,400, and voice 
 > and data lines at 9600.  Once 28,800 FAXes start coming out in 
 > quantity, we should start seeing 28,800 phone lines, and throughputs 
 > should jump to 3400cps easily!
this is probably true, but by the time the FCC gets around to this, everyone 
will probably be using ISDN...(grin)..
enjoy..
dave
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