Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 11:06:17 -0500 (EST) From: Richard Cownie <tich@ma.ikos.com> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: PCI WinModem Message-ID: <199903101606.LAA20476@lonesome.ma.ikos.com>
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Wes Peters wrote: >Most PCI modems are "WinModems" and are not supported under FreeBSD >anything.anything. They are nasty little pieces of trash foisted >on people who don't know better by hardware charlatans. In defence of PCI WinModem's, I just built a machine (Cyrix MII-300) put in a PCI WinModem which cost $20 after rebate, and it works just great under Win98 - downloaded some stuff at about 5.5KB/sec (~= 45000 bits/sec, 85% of the theoretical limit of 53000bits/sec). This is substantially faster than I get with my "real" modem under FreeBSD (maxes out at about 4.5KB/sec). Economically and technically, from my (admittedly meagre) experience I'd say WinModem's are a neat solution - if you only run Windows (like 95%+ of users). Don't knock it just because FreeBSD can't support it (yet). Richard Cownie (tich@ma.ikos.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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