56K Modem War Stories
George
ggambill at emr.net
Tue Jun 27 11:46:21 MST 2006
Thanks to all who replied. It turns out that, looking through my
storehouse of retired good stuff, I found an old Hi-Val 56K external modem.
It installed way to easy and works flawlessly. That worries me. :-)
Thanks,
George
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> Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 06:01:14 -0700 (PDT)
> From: KE7FEG <eculbert at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: 56K Modem War Stories
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> As I understand it, if it is a 'winmodem' internal ---
> skip it. Internals need their own guts, not using the
> cpu sharing thingy.
>
> Externals don't share stuff with the OS soooo, they
> just have the guts to run.
>
> There ARE some internal modems that have the same guts
> as the externals, USR has some. They are the
> 'expensive'er' models..around $50 and up, instead of
> under $25 new.
>
> I think it is USR's 'business class' courier modems
> but don't quote me on internals...always used
> externals/linux.
>
> --- "Patrick Fleming, EA" <plug at rwcinc.net> 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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