On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 05:58:36PM -0400, Ed Cogburn wrote: | 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. True. | 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. Where? I haven't seen any lights in windows (back when I used it, and also had dial-up). I haven't looked for lights linux. | Lights aren't that helpful anyway, they can't tell you whether the | delay is temporary or your ISP connection is hung permanently. The lights are helpful to show whether or not you have a dial-tone, etc. In addition, if the modem has a digital display, it can give more informative information or error codes. | A good internal one is just as good, and a tad cheaper, than an | external one. The difficulty with internal modems is finding the "good" to go with it :-). With external modems, you *know* immediately that it isn't a winmodem. Another point to consider, an internal modem takes up an extra ISA/PCI slot in your machine. An external one only uses a serial port, which are not commonly used anymore anyways. (well, I've mainly only seen modems, old mice, and old printers that used the serial port. Most people don't have a Lucent phone switch in their house to get SMDR logging from, and an org. large enough to have their own can spare some extra serial ports :-)) Either style modem is fine, as long as it works. -D -- It took the computational power of three Commodore 64s to fly to the moon. It takes at least a 486 to run Windows 95. Something is wrong here. http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/
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