From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 9 17:26:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA10091 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 17:26:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA10084 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 17:26:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id JAA13107; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 09:55:56 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19971010095555.58726@lemis.com> Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 09:55:55 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Jeff Roberts Cc: FreeBSD Questions Discussion List Subject: Re: FBSD: Hayes Accura 56K and FreeBSD? References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: ; from Jeff Roberts on Thu, Oct 09, 1997 at 04:46:53PM -0500 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, Oct 09, 1997 at 04:46:53PM -0500, Jeff Roberts wrote: > > Hi, everyone. > > I'm thinking of making the leap from my old USR 144 to a new Hayes Accura > 56. Assuming this is not another of these Winmodem deals (the specs from > my vendor are iffy), I don't see any compatibility problems. However, can > the FreeBSD PPP dialout program(s) fully exploit the new modem's speed? > I checked the docs @ freebsd.org, but didn't see anything really > pertaining to performance of higher-speed modems. I haven't used one of these myself, but I can't imagine that there's anything specific about them which would cause a problem for FreeBSD. Out of the box, most modems will try to run at full speed, but you can influence this by setting S registers. I'm sure that the K56s are the same in this respect. > My school will not be up to 56K anytime soon (currently at 28.8K), but I > want to be able to connect with them at their maximum. Is there any > reason that I shouldn't go with this modem? I'm at 2.2.1-R. Yes. There are two conflicting standards. What's the bet that you'll end up with the one they choose not to supprt? Greg