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What Happened to v.92 Support for Dial-up Users?

Posted by Cliff on from the replaced-by-something-better-I-hope dept.

crhylove asks: "For those of us suckers still on dial up, for whatever the reason, v.92 and v.44 compression may offer a substantial increase in bandwidth, especially if you are someone needing to upload lots of files. Also, it would eliminate the need for Callwave for those of us who have to stay connected all the time. v.92 has been out for over a year now, and I don't know of a single ISP in my area that provides v.92 service. So, Slashdot, what the hell happened to V.92? What do we do about it?"

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  1. Buggy software by krikke · · Score: 3, Informative

    I don't mean to rag on Cisco, but if the ISP is using Cisco Access Servers, the firmware upgrades are a scary thing.

    Cisco had a V.92 firmware upgrade for their Access Servers available in July. This (2001) July. We had to upgrade the IOS to an experimental version to get the upgrade (for V.92) to work, but that experimental version wouldn't hang up the modems after they had been used. It was a nightmare.

    This could be a reason the ISP's are slow in supporting V.92, since many ISP's tend to use Cisco gear on their network.