dialin per analog to isdn

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Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de> writes:

> > But what if you have an ISDN card (like the US Robotics (I think the
> > name was sportster), that is emulating a real modem?!) Is it possible to
> > handle both (ISDN, analog), if you use different telephonnumbers to
> > dialin?
> 
> Well, that's no "ISDN card", that's a "internal modem with ISDN connector"
> - with its own CPU etc. - if that modem can do fax and has an AT interface
> and a serial port, it will work.

It sounds like there's a spot of confusion here.

The USR Courier I-modem is the combined ISDN TA & Modem, which is
available as internal or external, and acts as an ISDN TA and also
effectively contains a courier modem which allows it to act as the
server end of a V.90 connection.

AFAIK the USR ISDN Sportster is actually a Stollmann card, and doesn't
do anything fancy --- it's a dumb ISDN TA card.

There's also an external ISDN Sportster, which is also a simple TA AFAIK.

> Nevertheless one should avoid Sportsters like the plague.

I've no idea if the doubtfull quality of the ``Sportster'' modems can
be used as any indication of the quality of the ``Sportster'' ISDN
TAs.

Cheers, Phil.