From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Jan 13 06:49:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id GAA15191 for hardware-outgoing; Mon, 13 Jan 1997 06:49:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (root@buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id GAA15172; Mon, 13 Jan 1997 06:49:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from buffnet1.buffnet.net (mmdf@buffnet1.buffnet.net [205.246.19.10]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA01144; Mon, 13 Jan 1997 09:49:08 -0500 Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net by buffnet1.buffnet.net id aa11550; 13 Jan 97 9:50 EST Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 09:50:36 -0500 (EST) From: Steve To: Leonard Chua cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: reliable modems? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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)