From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 7 19:47:07 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA23389 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 19:47:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from repop1.jps.net (repop1.jps.net [209.63.224.238]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA23382 for ; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 19:47:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from justins@jps.net) Received: from saruman (209-239-201-151.oak.jps.net [209.239.201.151]) by repop1.jps.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA02322; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 19:46:34 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <4.1.19990107193459.0140bc00@mail.softhome.net> X-Sender: justins@mail.jps.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 19:46:03 -0800 To: Rick Hamell From: Justin Simms Subject: Re: Modem reccomendation Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <4.1.19990107181928.013d9d70@mail.softhome.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 07:08 PM 1/7/99 -0800, you wrote: > Nope, not at all. My experiences with USRs over the years have not >been good. I've repeatedly given them the benifit of the doubt. I've >personally owned 4 different models, all the way back to 2400, up to a >brand new external 56 v.everything Courier. I've thrown away or given them >all away. When I worked for an ISP, USR modems took twice as long to setup >on the customers computers, then we also had problems getting them to dial >in. Before that, a client had gone out and bought 10 of them for his >office and his employees. I ended up replacing 4 of them, sent 3 of them >in for BIOS upgrades (at about $45/each or so,) played with 2 more long >enough that they finally worked, and only got one to work without >problems. Over ten years I've probally replaced at least 50% of all >USR modems that came through my hands. Where as my experiences with Zoom >have been the exact opposite, no problems what so ever. > Now, I'll freely admit that some people have no problems with >them. I'm just not one of them. :) > > > Rick This is a pretty good point - hardware recommendations tend to be really subjective. Must say I'm a big USR fan. USR has been pretty good about keeping the command set consistant across models, but admittedly this isn't a concern for many people. :-) Just out of curiousity, has your good luck been with internal or external Zooms, or both? When I was in tech support we tried to steer people clear of all the modems starting with Z. Zoom, Zoltrix, Zyxel, etc. :-) Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message