From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Apr 14 08:56:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA22842 for isp-outgoing; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 08:56:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from server.medinet.si (root@server.medinet.si [193.77.234.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA22826 for ; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 08:56:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by server.medinet.si (8.8.5/8.8.5/970403) with UUCP id RAA23377; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 17:56:11 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from blaz@localhost) by gold.medinet.si (8.8.5/8.8.5/960929) id RAA00293; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 17:52:40 +0200 (CEST) From: Blaz Zupan Message-Id: <199704141552.RAA00293@gold.medinet.si> Subject: Re: Dialups work finally! In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970413162917.006a21cc@web-trends.com> from Susie Ward at "Apr 13, 97 04:29:20 pm" To: webmaster@web-trends.com (Susie Ward) Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 17:52:39 +0200 (CEST) Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > locally besides Sportsters. So does anyone have any other suggestions > (besides Couriers, I'm checking into pricing on those, but not sure if I > can afford them, if I can that will most likely be what I go with)? I know > that opinions on what modems to use vary greatly, but I would like to hear > any problems/successes any of you have had with certain ones so I will know > which ones to definitely avoid and which ones to check into. I am currently using a mix of Couriers and Sportsters. Users did not have any problems with connections to any of the above. The only problem is that sometimes the Sportsters simply hang and don't accept dialup connections anymore or change the baud rate (so you get noise on your screen), etc. and sometimes not even turning them off helps, you have to reinit and reset them. This never happened with a Courier. So I would definitely NOT recommend a Sportster as an ISP dialup modem, especially not the Voice version, because this one is even more flaky (we have some of those because the normal ones were not available and we needed them badly). I'm switching to a Livingston Portmaster 3 right now and hope to get rid of all those modems ASAP :) -- Blaz Zupan, blaz.zupan@medinet.si, http://www.medinet.si/~blaz Medinet d.o.o., Linhartova 21, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia