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MINI-MODEM (56 KBPS DATA/FAX MODEM)
2. Introduction and Description
2.1 Introduction
This User’s Manual will help you install, configure, test
and use your Mini-Modem (56 kbps Data/Fax Modem).
2.2 Product Description
Your Mini-Modem incorporates a modem technology
called K56flex™ that enables Internet connections at
data rates up to 56 kbps over standard telephone lines.
(In the United States, FCC regulations limit transmission
speed to 53 kbps.) K56flex technology is able to propel
data downstream from the Internet to your computer at
speeds of up to 56 kbps because data is digitally encoded
instead of modulated. Upstream transmission, mostly
keystroke and mouse commands from your computer
to the central site, continues to flow at the conventional
data rate of 33.6 kbps.
Your Mini-Modem offers interactive automatic dialing,
as well as command mode option configuration. You
may store four command lines or telephone numbers,
of up to 40 characters each, in the modem’s nonvolatile
memory. The modem pulse or tone-dials, and recog-
