Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 13:45:16 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net> To: Richard Cownie <tich@ma.ikos.com> Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCI WinModem Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9903101342390.43830-100000@picnic.mat.net> In-Reply-To: <199903101606.LAA20476@lonesome.ma.ikos.com>
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On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Richard Cownie wrote: > 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). And FreeBSD isn't very likely to support it at all, because it's an incredible waste of computing power. You make it sound like being incredibly cheap is a virtue. The simple minded thing just offloads all the signal processing of a modem onto your processor, which means it can't do anything else useful while the modem's going. That isn't smart, that's idiotic, especially seeing as the price of *real* modems isn't all that high, comparatively speaking. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (Solaris7). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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