I haven't used a modem in forever, but when I had to, USR was all I ever used.

Ebay on old courier.  Things were built like tanks.

http://cgi.ebay.com/USR-Courier-v-everything-v-90-56k-External-Modem_W0QQitemZ103001191861QQcategoryZ14920QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

$25 or so
and much nicer than anything being made today

Scott spoke forth with the blessed manuscript:
> USRobotics/3Com make the highest quality dialup modems on the market.  
> Just about anything else is susceptible to  the dialup ping-of-death, 
> otherwise known as sending an ATH0+++ command through ping.  Internal or 
> Externals are great, as long as they aren't 'winmodems' that require 
> special software installed in order to operate.
> 
> An extremely detailed overview of how to get a modem configured to work 
> in any flavor of linux can be found here:
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Modem-HOWTO.html
> 
> Hope this helps,
> -Scott
> 
> Patrick Fleming, EA wrote:
> >I like Best Data modems. External serial and have worked with everything
> >I ran. I picked mine up at Office Max.
> >http://bestdata.com/index.php?file=c-all56k&iCategoryId=10
> >
> >George wrote:
> >  
> >>I needing a good Linux friendly (Debian - Xandros) 56K modem.  Any
> >>good/bad stories (make model) I need to know about?
> >>
> >>TIA
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