From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Jan 12 14:51:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id OAA29119 for hardware-outgoing; Sun, 12 Jan 1997 14:51:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from earth.infinetconsulting.com (earth.infinetconsulting.com [207.23.43.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id OAA29100; Sun, 12 Jan 1997 14:51:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (from lenc@localhost) by earth.infinetconsulting.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id PAA16087; Sun, 12 Jan 1997 15:05:16 -0800 Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 15:05:15 -0800 (PST) From: Leonard Chua To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: reliable modems? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Does anyone out there have or know of a list of reliable modems? By reliable, I mean modems which have the least compatibility problems, especially when negotiating with other vendors' modems. My understanding (which is probably wrong, so feel free to correct me, thanks) is that even tough a vendor claims to support standard (e.g V42bis), it may not always work with another vendor's 'same' standard (i.e. V42bis again). Probably one (or both) of them is only supporting a subset of the standard. On a side note, M$N claims to have modems that are _guaranteed_ to work with any modem in the market. Applause or Flame'em? Len.