Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 09:50:36 -0500 (EST) From: Steve <shovey@buffnet.net> To: Leonard Chua <lenc@earth.infinetconsulting.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: reliable modems? Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970113094710.23502I-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970112144716.16061A-100000@earth.infinetconsulting.com>
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On Sun, 12 Jan 1997, Leonard Chua wrote: > 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? > Zooms negotiate fine and are cheap - but lock up. USR Couriers answer reliably and connect realiably - but the modem pools are junk (they flake out - Ive had every one I bought replaces the 1st 6 mths - and the 33.6 flash cause lower rate connections than when it was 28.8) hayes Century wont let you set &d3 or they cause your term servers to cycle - but they are fairly reliable hayes century 2 are ok and pretty reliable. (just my experience and opinion - flames will be files to /dev/null)
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