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Date:      Wed, 22 Jul 1998 23:48:49 -0400
From:      "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>
To:        Greg Lynn <dglynn@vaview5.vavu.vt.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PCI modems... 
Message-ID:  <199807230348.XAA15671@whizzo.transsys.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 22 Jul 1998 09:57:53 EDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980722095042.914C-100000@vaview5.vavu.vt.edu> 
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980722095042.914C-100000@vaview5.vavu.vt.edu> 

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I don't have any experience with this particular modem.  Two things to
consider:

- make sure that this isn't a "Win modem", where much of what usually
happens inside the modem by a microcontroller gets to be done by your
host CPU.  This is things like V.42bis.

- While having a rockwell chipset is a good sign, you should be aware
that the quality of the analog front-end of the modem may be the limiting
factor that will affect what rate the modem manages to train at.

For instance, the USR Sportster and Courier modems have more or less the
same DSP implementation, by the quality of the analog front end in the
Courier will have it connect at at higher rate than the Sportster, all
other things being equal.

louie


> I was looking in a mag that had a PCI 56K modem with the flex
> technology and ability to upgrade V.90 made by Infotel.  Does anyone
> have any comments on this card and does/will it work on 2.2.6?
> For $55 is's not that bad although it has a rockwell chipset on it...




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