From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jan 27 10:10:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA02938 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 10:10:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.213.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA02856 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 10:09:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@sdf.com) Received: from tom by misery.sdf.com with smtp (Exim 1.73 #1) id 0xxFCG-0007lB-00; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 09:53:16 -0800 Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 09:53:15 -0800 (PST) From: Tom To: jack cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What is a good modem? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, jack wrote: > On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, Tom wrote: > > > On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, Shaun Q. wrote: > > > > > my personal recommendation would be the usr sportster or courier x2 modem. This is what I use on a machine running fbsd at work > > > > Ugh, not X2. It is doomed anyhow... > > Say what??? Just flash the rom when the 56k standard is finalized. Sportsters are not flashable, only Couriers. It is hoped that most Couriers will be flashable to ITU. That might be a problem. K56Flex modems are capable of auto-leveling to reach a max of 56k, but X2 modems put out too high levels so are limited to 53k. This seems to be limitation of the DSP on some of the Couriers and USR TC modems. USR designed X2 to support as many USR modems as possible. I don't know if the ITU will be as forgiving. > > A Zoom K56Flex is highly rated lately. > > Same as above, if it is possible on a Zoom. Sure is. Basically all K56Flex modems are flashable. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Jack O'Neill Systems Administrator / Systems Analyst > jack@germanium.xtalwind.net Crystal Wind Communications, Inc. > Finger jack@germanium.xtalwind.net for my PGP key. > PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD > enriched, vcard, HTML messages > /dev/null > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Tom