From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 7 21:01:50 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA01526 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 21:01:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from goodall1.u.washington.edu (goodall1.u.washington.edu [140.142.12.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA01519 for ; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 21:01:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from durang@u.washington.edu) Received: from localhost (durang@localhost) by goodall1.u.washington.edu (8.9.1+UW98.09/8.9.1+UW98.09) with ESMTP id VAA105806; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 21:01:19 -0800 Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 21:01:19 -0800 (PST) From: "K. Marsh" To: Justin Simms cc: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hamellr@dsinw.com Subject: Re: Modem reccomendation In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990107181928.013d9d70@mail.softhome.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Justin Simms wrote: > I really can't imagine a set of circumstances in which a zoom modem would > be preferable to a USR. Was this a typo? I got a USR 33.6 (internal) for about a hundred a while back, thinking that USR is the best. I got it running with no problem, but I got very bad transfer rates with it. I tried it in three OS's with two machines and two ISPs, and the transfer rates I got in all cases were easily beat by the Supra 14.4 from which I was trying to upgrade. I met an ISP guy in a bar who told me that USRs are kind of like MicroSoft. They seems to assume that there's another USR on the other end of the line. He said if I used his ISP, I wouldn't have problems, because all of his modems were USR. I didn't take him up on that. It's hard to send a modem in for repair when it works, even if it doesn't do a very good job. By the time I realized it wasn't simply a matter of setting it up correctly, it was too late to return it. But without sending it in, I don't have any way of knowing if it's faulty or if there's an undocumented init string or something like that. Anyone else ever experience this, or have I been sitting on a faulty piece of gear this whole time? Kenneth J. Marsh University of Washington durang@u.washington.edu Chemical Engineering To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message