From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 2 18:11:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA12641 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 18:11:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from peanut.readington.com (peanut.readington.com [207.207.198.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA12634 for ; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 18:11:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chrismar@peanut.readington.com) Received: from localhost (chrismar@localhost) by peanut.readington.com (8.9.1/8.8.7) with SMTP id UAA12540; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 20:14:28 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from chrismar@peanut.readington.com) Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 20:14:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Martino To: rick hamell cc: Gary Kline , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Zoom vs Sportster In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >From an ISP standpoint we've had a horrible time with Zooms upgraded to V.90. If your ISP uses Livingston Portmasters with the V.90 upgrade you're better off staying with KFlex. On the otherhand, our Livingstons have had great success connecting to USR modems with V.90 out of the box. Chris -- Chris Martino chrismar@readington.com On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, rick hamell wrote: > > > Can anybody clue me in on the major differences between > > these two modems? save that the Zoom is supposed to be > > more reliable. > > Well, v.90 standard not withstanding, the K-Flex technology used by > Zoom is used by more people then USR's X2 technology. Besides... Zoom is > a lot more reliable... :) I've had two of each brand, and have been very > disappointed with USR from the start. > > > Rick > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message