>>
>> We have had our fair share of modem issues, and they HAVE gotten a little
>> better and worse with the various releases. Like someone said before,
>> there are 10000 modem manufactures and 4 NAS vendors. It seems to me that
>> you see the performance of X modem brands go up, and X modem brands go
>> down with each release.
>>
>Actually there are more than 4 NAS vendors. I can think of 7 offhand and I'm
>sure there are more than that. However there are to my admittedly limited
>knowledge only 4 manufacturers of chipsets for modems, Lucent, Rockwell, TI
>and Cirrus (woops forgot PCTel if you can call that a modem so that makes 5).
>I don't know about Cirrus but in all other cases it appears that the modem
>code
>is written by the manufacturers and adapted by the modem manufacturer by
>doing
>things like adding their name. So aplying your argument it would actually be
>simpler for the NAS manufacturers to fix their end.
>
How do you figure? This is not a valid argument at all. Chipsets and
modem code are two completely different things. Just because modem x has
chipset y, does not mean that the PM3 need only support "y" chipset to
support the "x" modem, etc. for things to be copestetic. The trouble is
there is a "z" here and that is the modem code on each and every modem
out there. The thing missing in the lucent's code is the "z", however
they are also missing z1, z2, z3, z4, z5 ,z6 z7, z8, z9, z10, z11, z12,
... z10,000.
Again, 10000 to 4 or 5 or 7? whatever.. Even if there were 100 or 1000,
NAS makers, it is still impossible to properly accomodate 10000+ modem
brands/code, etc..
jer
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