serial port 56k modem

[Technomage]

actually,
this is what I am looking for.
the 'winmodems" are software modems and don't exactly work very well in 
linux or OS X (and
in OS X they don't work at all). I need either a USB or serial port 
based external unit. if I could
find a pci based HARDWARE modem, I would, but I don't see those being 
made for anything
very cheap.

btw, dialup modems are not exactly dead tech. they are often included on 
most laptops (mac and pc)
which makes me wonder if the tech is all that dead. my mac laptop came 
with a built-in modem and
I am trying to find an external for my OS X desktop (using linux source 
code to compile the utilities I need).

The reason for this is that I have a phone line I dedicate for my own 
use and wireless+voip is not really
an option in a lot of places (where a phoneline is still available). I'd 
like to be able to access my lan (and route
to the net like an ISP) without having to maintain a separate dialup 
account (which would cost money
I don't have). so yeah, for those like me, this tech is definitely not 
dead yet.

Dazed_75 wrote:
> Sure you don't want one with the acoustic cups for the telephone headset?
> LOL
>
> Actually, I thought I would ask why you want an external one to connect to a
> serial port rather than a simple PCI internal modem which is still commonly
> available.  Th only thing I could think of was that your server is not a PC
> or so you could disconnect it when not traveling but you could do the same
> with the PCI just by disconnecting the phone line.
>
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Technomage <technomage.hawke at gmail.com>wrote:
>
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