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I live in Huntsville, AL where Motorola/UDS is located. A friend of mine who is an engineer there says that they will be bringing out a PCMCIA version of their Power series of 28.8 modems later this summer or so. The main problem they are having is that the transformer used in the DAA to interface to the telephone line doesn't downsize well to fit in a PCMCIA case. It changes the characteristics of the thing so much that it affects other stuff in the modem. When they get the problems ironed out I plan to get one of their modems. The Power series of Motorola modems uses flash memory for the DSP and the program rom so you can upgrade both using software. I understand that only the DSP code in the Megahertz modem is in flash rom so you can not upgrade the code later if a problem is found in the modem's code. My friend also said that the company that started V.FC wants royalty payments for V.FC and that AT&T will *never* pay royalty payments to another company for an essentially obsolete protocol. Thus the modems based on the AT&T chip set will never be V.FC compatible. There is a lively discussion of modems/modem technology in the newsgroup comp.dcom.modems for those that are interested. Don Ramsey. >>> >The 28.8 Megahertz is based upon the AT&T chip set. The 14.4 was >>> >Rockwell, thus compatibility is not a given. >>> I hear that the AT&T chip set does not support V.Fast (V.FC). >>> There are still some systems using V.FC. >> >>V.FC is a Rockwell protocol, V.32Turbo is AT&T. (Oil and water...) >>-- >>> .... stuff deleted ... >-- > Derek V. Chan > dvchan@netcom.com > chan4@fas.harvard.edu > chan4@scws1.harvard.edu > chan4@husc7.harvard.edu > chan4@i.want.out.of.harvard.edu > >