> From: Charles Curley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Modem questions, recommendation?
> My ISP just made available some 56K modems. I'd like to buy one to match,
> so when I asked them what they had, the response was:
>
> "They are ascend units that support K56_flex protocol. Any 'real' modem
> other than a US Robotics brand should work. By 'real', I mean any but
> a 'win-modem'. These use the CPU to do much of the modem's work and
> often times have problems that are all but impossible to solve because
> the problem is in the software drivers itself."
>
> Is "ascend" a brand name? What is 56K_flex, as opposed to what USR is using?
Ascend is a networking company - as far as I know, they do not make
modems for the individual buyer. However, K56_Flex is one of the two
56K standards, and is widely supported by a number of modem manufacturers.
USR supports (and in fact came up with) the competing standard, X2.
The two standards will soon be merged into a common standard, V.90.
> Any recommendations? Any modem I get has to work with W95, NT 4 and 5, and
> Red Hat Linux 5.
I've been using a Zoom 56K Internal Faxmodem, with pretty good results
on Win 95 as well as Linux. This is a PnP modem, which however can be
set using jumpers to workin a non PnP mode,
Hope this helps
Murari.
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