From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Mar 10 8: 5:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from cannon.ma.ikos.com (cannon.ma.ikos.com [137.103.105.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F3A615327 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 08:05:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tich@cannon.ma.ikos.com) Received: from lonesome.ma.ikos.com (lonesome [137.103.105.44]) by cannon.ma.ikos.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA13192 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 11:06:17 -0500 (EST) From: Richard Cownie Received: (from tich@localhost) by lonesome.ma.ikos.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA20476 for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 11:06:17 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 11:06:17 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199903101606.LAA20476@lonesome.ma.ikos.com> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: PCI WinModem Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Wes Peters wrote: >Most PCI modems are "WinModems" and are not supported under FreeBSD >anything.anything. They are nasty little pieces of trash foisted >on people who don't know better by hardware charlatans. In defence of PCI WinModem's, I just built a machine (Cyrix MII-300) put in a PCI WinModem which cost $20 after rebate, and it works just great under Win98 - downloaded some stuff at about 5.5KB/sec (~= 45000 bits/sec, 85% of the theoretical limit of 53000bits/sec). This is substantially faster than I get with my "real" modem under FreeBSD (maxes out at about 4.5KB/sec). Economically and technically, from my (admittedly meagre) experience I'd say WinModem's are a neat solution - if you only run Windows (like 95%+ of users). Don't knock it just because FreeBSD can't support it (yet). Richard Cownie (tich@ma.ikos.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message