From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Jan 13 07:21:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id HAA16713 for hardware-outgoing; Mon, 13 Jan 1997 07:21:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from whale.gu.kiev.ua (whale.gu.net [194.93.190.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id HAA16708; Mon, 13 Jan 1997 07:21:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from trifork.gu.net (trifork.gu.net [194.93.190.194]) by whale.gu.kiev.ua (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA52904; Mon, 13 Jan 1997 17:21:04 +0200 Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 20:25:25 +0200 (EET) From: Andrew Stesin To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: reliable modems? In-Reply-To: <199701130130.UAA17891@gamma.pair.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >Does anyone out there have or know of a list of reliable modems? I vote for recent Motorola's V.34 modems (Premier i.e., even Motorola Pro, remember this white plastic box? ;). USR Couriers are also really good. > >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). No you are probably wrong here, I didn't observe any problems with V.42/V.42bis in last 3 years. Though compatibility problems with different _V.34_ implementations -- oh yeah. There were some... and pretty non-obvious ones. Namely with Rockwell chipsets and "all others", and with USR Sportsters 33.6 and "all others", some time ago. Best regards, Andrew Stesin nic-hdl: ST73-RIPE