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Re: [?] Modem with Linux



On Tue, 12 Dec 1995, Bekman Stas wrote:

> I want to buy modem to work with it under Linux. Can somebody suggest me
> which on to buy, or not to . 
all modems are pretty standard, so specific brand name will work better 
on linux.

> What company and what speed( 14,4 or 28,8)? The latter has double price, 
the latter is nowadays almost the SAME price. it is not worth buying 
anything under 28k8 modems, V.34 to be precise. I heard a lot of peoiple 
complain about USR and BOCA V.34s, but I can't give you any more data 
over what they already published in PCMAG.
personal recomendations: Supra, which I work with, have a great CPS, and 
have flash ROMS. should be under $350 in Israel, $220 over the counter in 
the states. BestData are also sold in quontities here in Israel, and 
should be under the 700NIS, I have heard good things about them too.

> but does its peformance (speed) is really double? 
yep. CPS upto 3200-3300 on compressed files.

> What is the highest transfer rate bezeq lines can bear?
32k thoretically, unless you buy a 128k ISDN :-)

now please answer me direct if you need, we are over crowding this group...


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