Re: The Perfect Debian / Personal Computer
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 09:14:52AM -0700, Denzil Kelly wrote:
> If you already have an internal modem you can use it,
> but if you were buying one get an external one. This
> is not really that big of an issue. I was assuming
> that you were building the box from scratch. One
> reason to avoid internal modems is because they are a
> heat source and they will increase the temperature
> inside the computer. Another reason is that if the
> modem hangs for some reason you will probably have to
> reboot the machine as there is no way to reset an
> internal modem. If this occurs with an external modem
> you can just turn it off and turn it back on.
>
I've never had any of my internal modems hang on me. Have you ever had this
happen to you?
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