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DateTue, 18 Aug 1998 10:20:30 +0200 (MEST)
From(Gert Doering)
SubjectRe: Winmodem support, some performance tradeoff estimates
Ted Ts'o wrote:

>Personally, I usually buy a ~$200 (high-end) external modem myself,
>anyway, because I don't trust the construction and quality on the
>sub-$100 internal modems, Winmodems or not. When everybody was
>complaining about all of the glitches and problems with the USR
>Sporsters, I was using my USR Courier modem with nary a problem.

>Coincidence? I think not. You get what you pay for.

I strongly second this (even though off-topic in linux-kernel). From my
experience with mgetty+sendfax, I can say that it almost never pays off to
save money when buying a modem -- because you spend SO much time getting
it to work afterwards (or even "not getting it to work") that you won't
save anything after all.

The USR Courier/Sporster example is a very good one. The Couriers are
pretty expensive, but They Just Work, while the Sportster series are very
unreliable for everything but basic "data mode" usage.

gert
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A person who has nothing looks at all there is and wants something.
A person who has something looks at all there is and wants all the rest.

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