On 14 Oct 96, Russell Brooks wrote to Paul Wankadia --



 PW> I wonder why they didn't go upto 33.6Kbps earlier???

 RB> Who.....Rockwell



Anyone!



 RB> The BIG reason was that Motorola and other companies that have

 RB> had 33600 for a couple of yrs (1994) aimed them at industry (the



You mean V.34+ actually existed in 1994?!?



 RB> price was just too high for the averge home user in many cases.)

 RB> The USR Courier is designed for the Business market not home use.



So it's not exactly the "best value" modem for SOHO?



 RB> USR brought it to the people with Flash Rom making it affordable

 RB> (free) to the mass market.



Which lead to big bucks for USR, right?



 RB> The reason that it is flooding the market now is that a fair

 RB> percentage of the worlds modems use Rockwell chips and rockwell

 RB> have only just released a 33600 chipset. (way behind the others on

 RB> this one) All the other compaies used there own chipset.



The actual protocols were still compatible, weren't they?



 RB> Another reason that you are seeing more 33600 modems in the bottom end

 RB> of the range (Cheap Rockwell clones) is that V.34 (33600) modems are

 RB> now old technology. The 56K modems are being pushed by marketing now.



Are those buddy-to-buddy yet?



 RB> There will be a bit of dumping on the market (Rockwell clones) in the

 RB> next few months.



What is the best chipset?



Chow.



Junyer Hakker.



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