Re: Suggestions for buying a modem

[John Griffiths <john@capmon.com>]

At 01:03 AM 10/12/2000 -0400, William T Wilson wrote:
>On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Matthew Dalton wrote:
>
>> > It turns out that I have a lucent winmodem which will not work on Linux ( I
>> > have done around 2 weeks of research on it !!). So I have to buy a new
>
>A very few winmodems will more or less work nowadays.  Of course they suck
>just as much under Linux as they do under Windows.  But I have no idea
>which these are.  Try www.linmodems.org.
>
>If you really do have to buy a new modem, any modem which supports DOS, or
>OS/2 will work, as will any external serial modem.  But external modems
>usually cost a lot more.
>
And external modems are very groovy in many other ways.

for instance if your phone lines are vulnerable to lightning strike the modem will cook (as opposed to your motherboard)