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Modem Wars

When 56k modems debuted on the marketplace, the companies that made them claimed the race for Internet speed was over. Not quite. The race is now between two competing standards for 56k modems — X2 and K56flex.

No winners yet
ocregister.com (Orange County, Calif.)

Chase on for faster modems
Arizona Central (Phoenix)

Ugly circuits make the data zoom
Arizona Central (Phoenix)

56k modems really get down when they're up
Tampa Bay Online (Fla.)

56k modems a quandary for speed freaks
Sacbee (Sacramento, Calif.)

Let pioneers play with high-speed modems
Austin 360 (Texas)

Get your kicks on route 56
Austin 360 (Texas)




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Speeding up the World Wide Wait
Speed
(Dale Sloat)
It's just not fast enough. Ever since the world embraced the Internet and rest of the online world, users have been screaming for more speed. But just as it seems you've bought a modem fast enough, the Net evolves to include more bandwidth-hogging features like sound and video and animation. The steadily increasing numbers of people online are creating a digital traffic jam of global proportions. What was once hailed as the information superhighway is often reduced feeling more like a residential road with a 20-mile per hour speed limit. But this is the Internet, where developments happen every day. Can the answer to the world's bandwidth needs be just around the next corner?


 From NewsWorks

Alliance of phone companys, Microsoft and Intel, team up to back ADSL
washingtonpost.com

Texas Instruments expected to unveil new chip for speedy Internet access
Dallas Morning News

A primer on Internet speed
@ugusta (Ga.)

Lickety-split net depends on connection
Austin 360 (Texas)

Intel debuts Quick Web, a faster Web with a few trade-offs
washingtonpost.com

Could coaxial cable cut through the traffic?
Arizona Central (Phoenix)

Cable companies lead the race for faster speeds
@ugusta (Ga.)

@Home, one of cable's high-speed Internet entries, debuts in San Diego
San Diego Source

Surfing with speed in Michigan
Detroit News Online

Cable service fast, but it can bog down
Arizona Central (Phoenix)

ISDN: Fast Internet phone connection is available, but it's not cheap
The Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.)

Raw speed at a price
@ugusta (Ga.)

Now entering the lightning modem age
Austin 360 (Texas)

ADSL: High speed access over a conventional copper phone line
jacksonville.com (Fla.)

Phone, computer firms to unveil ADSL lite
Dallas Morning News

Is 19th-century technology still good for use in the 21st century?
ocregister.com (Orange County, Calif.)

Hiawatha Bray: ADSL makes 56k modems obsolete
Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, Calif.)

ADSL as a new standard?
Birmingham Post-Herald Online (Ala.)

ADSL deal a boon for California companies
Press Democrat Online (Santa Rosa, Calif.)

Bell companies to sell ADSL in northeast
newsday.com (Long Island, N.Y.)

A one-two punch for modem speed
The Sun Herald (Biloxi-Gulfport, Miss.)

Free program diagnoses Internet bottlenecks
Austin 360 (Texas)

A software solution
Detroit News Online

Company in high-browse mode with Internet accelerator
St. Paul Pioneer Press (Minn.)

Commentary: A reason for hope from the U.S. Internet Council
San Diego Source

Running the net from airplanes overhead
Arizona Central (Phoenix)

Is TV danger from data broadcasting?
washingtonpost.com

Newscatcher creates new ways to track the headlines
@ugusta (Ga.)

Gulf War technology hits the market
Arizona Central (Phoenix)

The future of the home office
Austin 360 (Texas)


 From the Web

High bandwidth home page
Specialty Access Consulting

ADSL forum