From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Jan 13 09:31:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id JAA23854 for hardware-outgoing; Mon, 13 Jan 1997 09:31:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from Zero-Cool.Hades.Org (nobody@dialup-1-3.net.ic.ac.uk [155.198.8.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id JAA23848; Mon, 13 Jan 1997 09:31:25 -0800 (PST) From: pumpkin@uk.pi.net Received: from localhost (scot@localhost) by Zero-Cool.Hades.Org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA00519; Mon, 13 Jan 1997 17:29:28 GMT Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 17:29:28 +0000 (GMT) X-Sender: scot@Zero-Cool.Hades.Org To: Leonard Chua cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: reliable modems? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 12 Jan 1997, Leonard Chua wrote: > Does anyone out there have or know of a list of reliable modems? > 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). > Probably one (or both) of them is only supporting a subset of the standard. > > On a side note, M$N claims to have modems that are _guaranteed_ to work > with any modem in the market. Applause or Flame'em? > > Len. > > How about the US Robotic Courier (deff. not the Sportsters) modems.. they support just about every protocol under the sun and are nicely upgradable. They're nice in a rack-mount config too - 4 modems to a card with the Total Control hubs - although the Windows management software sucks eggs (I use Telnet to manage them rather than that piece of rubbish). Yours - Scot. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Scot Elliott | Please note that any opinions | | MEng Computing IV. | expressed are mine, and not those | | Imperial College, London | of the department or college. | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | e-mail: s.elliott@ic.ac.uk | IRC nick: PlumbrBoy | | pumpkin@uk.pi.net | "You are everything in my fridge" | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------