From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Mar 10 9:43:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from germanium.xtalwind.net (germanium.xtalwind.net [205.160.242.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 898CB15128 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 09:43:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jack@germanium.xtalwind.net) Received: from localhost (jack@localhost) by germanium.xtalwind.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA51159; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 12:43:03 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 12:43:02 -0500 (EST) From: jack To: Richard Cownie Cc: vev@michvhf.com, dan@wolf.com, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCI WinModem In-Reply-To: <199903101708.MAA20518@lonesome.ma.ikos.com> 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 Today Richard Cownie wrote: > OK, so far the only substantive criticism of WinModems and WinPeripherals > in general is that they only run with Windows. On the plus side these > things tend to offer good performance at ultra-cheap prices. "Good performance" _only_ on a lightly loaded system. If your CPU is busy with other things it doesn't have the cycles available to service your partial modem or partial printer. Start a download and try to format a floppy at the same time. Unless they've done some rewriting of their code the download will fall apart even with a real modem. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message