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On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 20:43 +0100, Stefan Schweizer wrote: |
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> On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 20:18:35 +0100, Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o> wrote: |
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> > I had a fcdslsl for about ... well... two days (and no Internet in that |
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> > time :-) ). |
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> The fcdslsl driver in portage was not that advanced by then I guess. |
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The official AVM driver was not yet working on linux at that time ... |
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> > It's about as crappy as most "softmodems". I'm back to an external |
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> > pppoe-based DSL modem since it just works. |
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> Quality of softmodems depends on the drivers .. if you use crappy |
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> drivers you get disconnects every half an hour .. |
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Hehe. If you live in Germany, you get disconnects every [5 ... 1440] minutes anyway :-) |
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> > No thanks. AVM has gone from "very good" to "cheap broken stuff" in a |
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> > very short time :-( |
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> So everything form AVM has gone to "cheap broken stuff", because you |
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> were not able to set up your dsl-card? |
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Well ... their latest offerings I could test were extremely |
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windows-centric and did not work to my satisfaction. And th fcdslsl is a |
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cheap DSP with some PCI interface glue ... |
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> Please give us some moer |
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> examples .. I think they are actually pretty cool, especially the new |
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> fritzboxfons. |
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Haven't tested those yet. I hope they are better! |
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> > I still have a fcdslsl and an external pppoe-based DSL modem lying |
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> > around for any interested devs. |
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> What pppoe-based DSL modem? Is it an usb-one that needs special |
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> drivers? Or just one of the ethernet-connected that works |
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> out-of-the-box? |
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It's an external ethernet-based thingy, belgian produce (so it might not |
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be fully standards compliant) for an analog+DSL connection (not ISDN) |
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I tend to keep away from those DSL-over-USB-over-SATA-over-WLAN things. |
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It's unneeded complexity that tends to make these things really hard to |
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use. |
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Note that I'm not saying that AVM produces cr*p. I'm only saying that |
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their old ISDN products were really good and their new stuff has been |
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rather frustrating for me. |
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Patrick |