BG>> Can we now expect a lemming-like mass suicide from The Gap by thousands 

 BG> of 

BG>> heart-broken USR zealots (taking their useless x2 Couriers with them)?  

 BG> :)



RB>> NO...NO...Eat your words Mr GRIM..SLEY



 BG> I'd like to, but I simply can't see x2 taking off in a big way in Oz when 

 BG> you

 BG> consider that USRs would realistically account for perhaps less than 10% 

 BG> of the

 BG> total installed base of ISP modems, and I doubt that all of those will be

 BG> upgraded to (or replaced with) x2-capability anyway.  This is probably 

 BG> one

 BG> occasion where it will be advantageous to be running Rockwell-based 

 BG> modems, and

 BG> let's face it, within a year or two, they'll both be obsolete anyway...



Beats me why the bring out these interim protocols when they are already

working (and have been since '94 on ADSL. We have been begging for the

tried and proven ISDN for years and it is readily available but for the price.



In this commercial world, we (the public) are just lambs to the slaughter...

waiting for the next opportunist to milk us dry.



Russell

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