[ale] modem advice wanted

[Holland Griffis]

On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, you wrote:
>Amy Ayers writes:
>>A friend of mine just got a Mindspring account and has a 28.8 modem.
>>He's thinking about upgrading to 56, and is looking around for a good
>>deal (mostly online).
>
>I would advise buying a USR Sportster (make sure it's not a WinModem!).  The
>official 56K standard was finalized recently and is called V.90 (X2 and 56K
>Flex will both be backwards compatible).  Check around on the USR pages, but
>I'm pretty sure that if you buy an X2 Sportster, you can download a free
>flash upgrade to V.90.  Something like this would probably work really well
>with MindSpring's dialups.
>
>Greg
>
>-- 
> Greg Hankins <greg.hankins at cc.gatech.edu>               MS CS Graduate Student
> Georgia Institute of Technology, College of Computing
>          2nd Annual Atlanta Linux Showcase, October 23 - 24, 1998
>          Conference and Exhibition - http://www.ale.org/showcase/

I'm using a USR Sportster 56K just fine w/mindspring. Mindspring supports X2, so
you have to get an X2 modem.  I get pretty good download speeds with it and web
pages load in netscape pretty fast. : ) Hope this helps.

Holland Griffis