Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 10:10:58 -0500 (CDT) From: Wm Brian McCane <root@bmccane.uit.net> To: gjennejohn@frt.dec.com Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ISDN Modems Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970920100834.15878B-100000@bmccane.uit.net> In-Reply-To: <199709191037.KAA03250@mofo.frt.dec.com>
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On Fri, 19 Sep 1997, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > > Luigi Rizzo writes: > > Now if ISDN cards were sold in volumes and priced reasonably (i.e. > > as much as an NE2000, since they are actually simpler!) and accessed > > through a dedicated device driver, then things would certainly be > > different. > > > > well, ISDN cards aren't as cheap as the NE2000 clones, I have to admit > that. But then again, the volume is a lot smaller. I can get a Teles > clone here in Germany for about 140 DM, which is ~$75. > > And, with bisdn, the cards _are_ accessed using a dedicated driver. > I can get (depending on the quality of the connection) the maximum > throughput of ~8kB/sec (well, actually ~7.5kB/s with overhead). > > --- > Gary Jennejohn (work) gjennejohn@frt.dec.com > (home) garyj@muc.de > (play) gj@freebsd.org Only 7.5kB/sec? I am now very confused. I get 6kB/s throughput from my 33.6 most of the time. Of course I am usually transferring news/mail so they are highly compressible. Do any of the plug-in cards do LZ compression, or anything similar? brian +-------------------------------------+----------------------------------------+ He rides a cycle of mighty days, and \ Wm Brian and Lori McCane he represents the last great schizm \ McCane Consulting among the gods. Evil though he obviously \ root@bmccane.uit.net is, he is a mighty figure, this father of \ http://bmccane.uit.net/ my spirit, and I respect him as the sons \ http://bmccane.uit.net/~pictures/ of old did the fathers of their bodies. \ http://bmccane.uit.net/~bmccane/ Roger Zelazny - "Lord of Light" \ http://bmccane.uit.net/~bbs/ +---------------------------------------------+--------------------------------+
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