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Finger-Pointing Galore (8/26/98)
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Whoopsie, not everyone's convinced by Steve Jobs' insistence that the iMac connection problems are entirely the fault of the ISP's. According to a ZDNet article, some ISP's are taking offense at the suggestion that they're not v.90-compliant, such as PowerNet Online, who claims to have had true v.90 dialins for five months but still has iMac customers with problems. Then there's also the guy from PlantageNet Internet, who claims that "v.90 hasn't even been ratified yet [as a standard]," which we're quite certain is wrong, wrong, wrong. Personally, we wouldn't sign with an ISP who was so behind on the facts.
Anyway, we suspect that this debate's not over yet. We consider the most likely solution to be a new Apple-supplied modem initialization string that will provide better 56K connections, though it's anyone's guess when (or if) such a thing will ever appear. A much less likely scenario is that there really is something physically wrong with the iMac's modem and Apple would have to service any iMacs that are experiencing continuing connection problems-- let's not even go there.
Meanwhile, Apple's posted a new official "alternate" modem description file for use with the iMac modem, for those unhappy netizens who are experiencing frequent disconnections when dialed into their ISP's at 56K speeds. The new modem file forces all connections to be v.34 (33.6 kbps or lower), which many people are finding to be much more stable than 56K ones "in situations where the phone line quality is marginal." Sure, it's a slower connection speed, but is 56K really faster if you have dial in six or seven times to get anything done?
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 8/26/98 episode: August 26, 1998: Steve says it's the ISP's, the ISP's say it's the modem init string, let's call the whole thing off. Meanwhile, HBO aren't the only ones looking to make a movie about Apple's past, and Quark tries to buy Adobe, who's fallen on hard times...
Other scenes from that episode: 970: Fifteen More Minutes (8/26/98) The competition is heating up in the race to immortalize the tumultuous history of Apple Computer on the small screen. Last June we told you about an upcoming HBO miniseries about Apple's past, which, as far as we know, is still planned... 971: Adobe for Sale (8/26/98) Yes, kiddies, it's all true: last week, Quark (makers of the widely-popular Quark XPress publishing software) offered to buy its struggling competitor Adobe. Adobe nixed the idea with a "thanks but no thanks," claiming that the "friendly" buyout offer didn't actually contain many important details, including, say, a price...
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