RE: Windevices was: RE: [aclug-L] phoebe micro pci modem 56k

["John Alexander" <john.alexander@xxxxxxx>]

Uh... Actually, that was for inhouse networks. The signaling doesn't let the
information go much more than a couple hundred feet, if you're thinking of
the Home Phonewire Network project.

JA

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: aclug-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx <aclug-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Friday, December 04, 1998 12:10 PM
> >
> >It's not always easy to tell from the packaging.  My advice is
> generally to
> >get a non-WinModem USR (Sportster or Courier), which will be a very good
> >modem anyway.
> >
>
> True USR does put out a fine modem.
>
>
> >> them pretty cheap.  I suspect that sooner or later, they will ALL be
> >> Winmodems, except for external ones.   Also, the printer situation is
> >
> >I'm not quite that pessimistic, because modems are basically near the end
> of
> >their useful life anyway -- there isn't much innovation going on there
> >anymore, and R&D dollars are going elsewhere.
> >
>
>
> I have heard rumor of the fact that Intel will soon be releasing a
> "modem/network" type card that will allow the user to achieve
> transfer rates
> equal to that of 10baseT over a phone line on a "piggy-back" signal thus
> also allowing the user to use the same phone line at the same time.  Which
> also means no more need for multiple lines for internet users that are
> online almost 24/7.  If this is true, modems as we know them now will
> eventually get phased out and this new technology phased in.
>
> As I said this is all information that was passed to me by another
> individual and I have not checked it out.  I believe the release date was
> going to be sometime in early 1999 (at least first quarter).  Do what you
> like with this info/rumor heck if it isn't true, wouldn't it be cool that
> spreading it actually resulted in getting something like this
> accomplished?
>
> spiff
>
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