Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 21:01:19 -0800 (PST) From: "K. Marsh" <durang@u.washington.edu> To: Justin Simms <justins@jps.net> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hamellr@dsinw.com Subject: Re: Modem reccomendation Message-ID: <Pine.A41.4.05.9901072045090.105064-100000@goodall1.u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990107181928.013d9d70@mail.softhome.net>
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On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Justin Simms wrote: > I really can't imagine a set of circumstances in which a zoom modem would > be preferable to a USR. Was this a typo? I got a USR 33.6 (internal) for about a hundred a while back, thinking that USR is the best. I got it running with no problem, but I got very bad transfer rates with it. I tried it in three OS's with two machines and two ISPs, and the transfer rates I got in all cases were easily beat by the Supra 14.4 from which I was trying to upgrade. I met an ISP guy in a bar who told me that USRs are kind of like MicroSoft. They seems to assume that there's another USR on the other end of the line. He said if I used his ISP, I wouldn't have problems, because all of his modems were USR. I didn't take him up on that. It's hard to send a modem in for repair when it works, even if it doesn't do a very good job. By the time I realized it wasn't simply a matter of setting it up correctly, it was too late to return it. But without sending it in, I don't have any way of knowing if it's faulty or if there's an undocumented init string or something like that. Anyone else ever experience this, or have I been sitting on a faulty piece of gear this whole time? Kenneth J. Marsh University of Washington durang@u.washington.edu Chemical Engineering To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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