From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Apr 2 17:30:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA21216 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 17:30:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA21173 for ; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 17:30:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA05178; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 17:25:16 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199804030125.RAA05178@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: "James A. Mutter" cc: Nate Williams , Travis Mikalson , Craig Wilson , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: USER PPP Slowness In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 02 Apr 1998 20:14:19 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 02 Apr 1998 17:25:15 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > > Actually I have yet to see a v.34(+) modem that wouldn't train back up. > > > USR Sportsters, Supras, Cardinals.. under $70 28.8/33.6 no-name > > > modems.. > > > > None of them train back up. Read the documentation again. That's one > > of the big selling features of the 'higher-end' modems, since almost all > > low-end modems could easily do that. > > > > > I don't think that's true anymore. I believe that they fixed that problem > ( not training back up ) years ago. My $65.00 33.6 does a fine job, it > goes down, it goes up, no problems at all. I've also observed generic Rockwell-based modems 'falling forward'. 99% of the no-name modems out there are a relayout of the Rockwell evaluation kit to suit the desired case shape and manufacturing cost, with nominal or no changes to the sample firmware. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message