Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 18:33:13 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jukka_Simil=E4?= <jukka.simila@sveg.se.sykes.com>, "BSD Blood" <bsdblood@hotmail.com>, <GLOBALLINK2001@aol.com>, <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Modem Message-ID: <009701c08060$2b724a20$847e03cb@apana.org.au> References: <8F68F32EB034D311A4A700508B4417D704108930@RATATOSK.sveg.se.sykes.com>
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G'day Jukka :) Normally I think we orstrayluns live in the best part of the globe but over the past week I've been looking enviously at the daily temperatures in your area .....its 1830 here now & still 87F ... was about 95F a few hours ago :( I dunno that many Diamond modems ever got this far from home .... same goes for most of the ones I notice in the hardware compatibility lists. There's no end of the dreaded generic winmodems from those asian countries, plus locally made & generally good quality Netcomm / Banksia / Maestro. We did have a very active distributor for Hayes before they turned turtle. I'm still using a few of them but they were awfully overpriced compared with Maestro. ($300+ vs $100). So you have lightning there too?? ..... anyone in OZ without industrial grade protection has gotta have geological specimens in the head !!!! I agree generally with your view re internal modems, however I did get reasonable results from most of the 33.6k Netcomms I used to rescue some prehistoric 386 Unisys boxes. Its not practical to put a $100 high speed serial card into a $20 box but a $30 modem is often OK. > One model that I was positively surprised of was Diamond's SupraExpress. > (I used the v.34) nice modem, no power switch so I assume it is supposed > to manage a slightly longer periods of connection time. at least it managed > to download fbsd 2.2.6 (or was it 3.1). Too bad that lightning broke it. > > Another working model is TeleWell, I've got the 56k model and works > fine'n'fast. > > I've never used internal modems, and never will.. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Doug Young [mailto:dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au] > > Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 6:12 AM > > To: BSD Blood; GLOBALLINK2001@aol.com; freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG > > Subject: Re: Modem > > > > > > Obviously some people have infinitely more patience with > > pox-ridden hardware > > than I have ..... the last generic modem I had was one of the silver > > colored spaceship styled "WebExcel" branded beasts .. possibly sold as > > either "Protac" or "Rockwell" in other parts of the planet > > than OZ. It did > > work fine ..... for maybe 6 - 8 hours. Now thats probably > > fair enough for > > the average 2 hour a day dialup user but it certainly is NOT > > on a permanent > > connection. Apparently the pretty color / design means the > > thing overheats > > quickly & it then needs a few hours rest to cool off before > > its prepared to > > do another shift. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "BSD Blood" <bsdblood@hotmail.com> > > To: <GLOBALLINK2001@aol.com>; <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> > > Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 11:12 AM > > Subject: Re: Modem > > > > > > > I've been using a external generic modem with rockwell > > chipset for nearly > > 4 > > > years now. No problems at all with my other Unix workstations. > > > > > > > > > >From: GLOBALLINK2001@aol.com > > > >To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org > > > >Subject: Modem > > > >Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 09:48:07 EST > > > > > > > >Hey guys ; what is a good externel modem to buy for > > FreeBSD i can be sure > > > >will work without problems? I have been told U. S. > > Robotics is good but i > > > >want some more opinions. Thanks > > > > > > > > Arthur > > > > > > > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > > ___________ > > > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at > http://www.hotmail.com. > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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