ben wrote:
On Sunday 16 June 2002 08:02 pm, Steve Brown wrote:Save yourself a lot of trouble, just pick up a USR V92 faxmodem or equivalent making sure it's -external-. Besides absolutely ensuring compatability, you can use it for a backup dialup connection on the WAN side of a broadband router if/when you get cable or DSL access to the 'net. Good luck, Steve On June 16, 2002 10:06 pm, Chris Kenrick wrote:I'm just about to do a motherboard upgrade, and that will mean replacing my current modem, which is unfortunately ISA based. Anyone able to recommend options for a replacement? I know that the cheaper internal modems are very likely to be winmodems, and (possibly) unsupported, but I'm not so sure about the others. Note that even though I've heard arguments that external modems are much better than internal because you can see what's happening with the lights, I've never really had trouble with the internal one as such, and not having to find space for YAP (yet another peripheral) is a good thing. If external is better to guarantee that it works with Linux, then that's fine too.though steve's regard for the regular standard of response--vis a vis, quotation above, notation below--is apparently retarded, the advice is sound. there's no good reason, ever, to use an internal modem, and usr faxmodems are consistently reliable as far as linux is concerned.
Funny, I've heard this external-is-better for years, but I've been using internals for more than a decade and never had problems with them. An external is just one more box taking up space somewhere on my crowded table. As for lights, I don't have that problem, the lights are on the command bar at the bottom, either in Windows or Linux/X/KDE. Lights aren't that helpful anyway, they can't tell you whether the delay is temporary or your ISP connection is hung permanently. A good internal one is just as good, and a tad cheaper, than an external one. I'm using a USR PCI faxmodem, model #5610.
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