From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 3 14:30:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cluck.stealthchickens.org (cluck.stealthchickens.org [209.192.217.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C3F037B422 for ; Thu, 3 May 2001 14:30:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mij@osdn.com) Received: from guinness.osdn.com (root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cluck.stealthchickens.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f43LUQ185543; Thu, 3 May 2001 17:30:26 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mij@osdn.com) Received: by guinness.osdn.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1DD12103; Thu, 3 May 2001 17:30:21 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 17:30:20 -0400 From: Jim Mock To: Scott Reese Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ricochet Modems Message-ID: <20010503173020.E7983@guinness.osdn.com> Reply-To: mij@osdn.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <00f501c0d417$8a5e8340$1800a8c0@borges> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.18i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 03 May 2001 at 14:25:08 -0700, Scott Reese wrote: > Hi all, this is just a quick question...I'm running 4.2-RELEASE and I > was thinking of going with Ricochet's wireless internet service. Does > anyone have experience with them? I'm just wondering a) if their > modem works with FreeBSD Yes, it works fine. Both USB and serial (although I don't remember if umodem supported it in 4.2-R, you might have to upgrade to 4.3-STABLE). > and b) if their service is any good... Yes. Way faster than dialup. It's nice sitting at a coffee shop with a laptop and having internet access :-) Unfortunately for me, there's no coverage in Boston yet, but it worked great when I lived in the SF bay area. - jim -- - jim mock - O|S|D|N - open source development network - - http://www.freebsdzine.org/ - jim@freebsdzine.org - jim@FreeBSD.org - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message