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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Any high speed modems that actually work?
Message-ID: <29cdpu$9fq@homer.cs.mcgill.ca>
From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER)
Date: 11 Oct 1993 19:56:46 GMT
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In article <terry.750367146@uivlsisd.csl.uiuc.edu>,
Terry Lee <terry@uivlsisd.csl.uiuc.edu> wrote:
> A while back during the discussions of RS232 flow control, a few people
>mentioned that very few high speed modems actually implement flow control
>correctly and reliably or use a large enough buffer. Could the people in
>the know mention a few modems that do have good implementations? The popular
>choices seem to be the USR Sportster, Zoom, Supra, Intel, and the Hayes Accura.
>I've heard good things about ZyXEL but they seem to be more expensive. I'm
>looking for a good 14.4K FAX modem to use with my FreeBSD system. If possible,
>please post as the answers might benefit others. Thanks!
Last summer I purchased a SUpra FaxModem 14,4.
It worked graet under DOS, Windows, NT, 386bsd 0.1, and NetBSD 0.9,
which it is currently running under Full time, since I no longer
use any of the others....
NOt a problem except for silo overflows on the NetBSD com drivers.
Marc 'em.
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Marc Wandschneider Seattle, WA
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