From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 3 20:10:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tharmas.rintrah.org (dhcp065-024-230-235.insight.rr.com [65.24.230.235]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 254A137B403 for ; Mon, 3 Sep 2001 20:10:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 67258 invoked by uid 0); 4 Sep 2001 03:11:09 -0000 Received: from osx.rintrah.org (HELO ?10.0.0.26?) (10.0.0.26) by tharmas.rintrah.org with SMTP; 4 Sep 2001 03:11:09 -0000 From: Devin Smith To: Cc: Subject: Re: modem needed Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 23:10:34 -0400 Message-Id: <20010904031034.28487@mail.rintrah.org> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: CTM PowerMail 3.0.9 carbon MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Hi, > >I need to buy a modem this week for my P120 freebsd 4.3 box. Every time I >look for one, I can never tell if it's a crappy winmodem or not. > >What do I look for? Any models you can recommend? I do want it to be cheap >cuz it will only be used as backup if dsl goes down (which with routed idsl, >rarely happens). > >I know most the modems out there are win modems, but they hide it. Even a >zoom modem for $80 I saw was a winmodem (I read review). > >Please advise. > >Thanks. > >Doug. > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > If it says it works with DOS or Windows 3.1, it's not a winmodem. If it requires Windows 9x/NT/2000, it likely is a winmodem. --devin -- Devin Smith | Master of nothing in particular http://127.0.0.1 | devin-freebsdquestions@rintrah.org "How many people do *you* know whose server can handle 650MB email attachments?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message