From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 4 16:20: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hermes.toad.net (hermes.toad.net [162.33.130.251]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3621637B401 for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 16:19:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bears (jeremy@core19d24.dynamic-dialup.toad.net [162.33.189.24]) by hermes.toad.net (8.11.2/8.11.0) with SMTP id f84NJv618495; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 19:19:57 -0400 Received: by bears (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 5 Sep 2001 19:17:05 -0500 To: Cc: Subject: Re: modem needed References: From: Jeremy Date: 05 Sep 2001 19:17:05 -0500 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <87n149w4u6.fsf@yahoo.com> Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG writes: > I need to buy a modem this week for my P120 freebsd 4.3 box. Every time I > look for one, I can never tell if it's a crappy winmodem or not. > > What do I look for? Any models you can recommend? I do want it to be cheap > cuz it will only be used as backup if dsl goes down (which with routed idsl, > rarely happens). > > I know most the modems out there are win modems, but they hide it. Even a > zoom modem for $80 I saw was a winmodem (I read review). I have a USRobotics 3CP5610A PCI faxmodem, and I love it. It's a "real" modem, and only set me back about $80. Jeremy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message