From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Mar 26 07:26:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA15537 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 07:26:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from anacreon.sol.net (anacreon.sol.net [206.55.64.116]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA15516; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 07:26:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from solaria.sol.net (solaria.sol.net [206.55.65.75]) by anacreon.sol.net (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id JAA28200; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 09:26:32 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost by solaria.sol.net (8.5/8.5) id JAA06807; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 09:26:29 -0600 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199703261526.JAA06807@solaria.sol.net> Subject: Re: reliable modems? To: louie@TransSys.COM (Louis A. Mamakos) Date: Wed, 26 Mar 97 9:26:27 CST Cc: stefan@exis.net, spork@super-g.com, richard@pegasus.com, freebsd-isp@freeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@freeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199703250114.UAA06420@whizzo.transsys.com> from "Louis A. Mamakos" at Mar 24, 97 08:14:32 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL65] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hardware@freeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Of course going through all those extra CODECs in the Lightspan/SLIC sort > of defeats most of the benifits of having all that fancy digital transmission > hardware. You're gonna need digital facilities at the ISP end to > have any chance at all at having any of the 56K modem stuff work. Not everyone is interested in 56K support (the LiteSpan has T1 cards available, in any case). ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847