Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 06:16:03 -0600 (CST) From: kendo <kendo@Mcs.Net> To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What is a good modem? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980129055805.12250C-100000@Mars.mcs.net> In-Reply-To: <001601bd2b0e$0cf10320$013ca0c0@control>
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I work tech support for an ISP. Sportsters are to be avoided if you have a choice. Couriers are excellent. Recommendation: Avoid all so called 56K non-standards. I also recommend avoiding internal modems because they require power down of whole system to truly reset modem. Externals have indicator lights or LCDs... Externals can be reset by powering down the modem and not the PC for ten seconds. If you are using very old hardware than an internal modem may be the way to go. You want to have a com port that has 16550 UARTs or better. Older PCs sometimes have 8250s or 16450s as UARTs. They were very poor when they first hit the market. Now they are just plain stupid. $88.00, Supra Sonic 33.6K has an LCD display that will show all important info on your current connection. Including protocol, compression, error-control, receive rate, transmit rate. It is a 16X2 character display. It is very stable and you can tell what is happening to your connection at all times. It evens displays retrains so you know what is happening. Zoom 56K external is excellent. Supra 56e is excellent. Motorola Modem Surfer 56K is good. Hayes Accura 56K is good. Make sure it is the newer version. Again do not even think Sportster unless you are given one or already have one. DO NOT spend a cent on a Sportster. If you have to have a USR/3COM modem get the Courier. The Courier is an excellent device that will serve you for many years. On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Donald Burr wrote: > I've had very good success with USR Sportsters. I've used both internal and external models on machines that are usuaully up a good portion of the day, if not 24/7, and haven't had a single crash or error. Avoid the USR clones, like the one made by TI, even CArdinal, etc. I tend not to trust them as much as "the real McCoy." > > They work great as dial-in modems, as dial-out modems (using pppd and/or iij-ppp), and as FAX modems (I use HylaFax). Configuration is pretty much "out of the box." > -- > Donald Burr > Email: dburr@POBoxes.com > Web: http://DonaldBurr.base.org/ > > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Horton <mhorton@magibox.net> > To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG> > Date: Monday, January 26, 1998 6:28 PM > Subject: What is a good modem? > > > >What's a good external modem to use with FreeBSD? > >
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