Re: modem: internal or external?
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On 10/18/06 21:51, dtutty@porchlight.ca wrote:
> I'm building a new computer (Etch is installing over dial up now),
> but all my modems are internal ISA. So unless I want to have to fire up
> my 486 just to dial out, I need a new modem.
That's a perfectly valid and useful scheme, mainly since it isolates
your PC from the internet.
And demand dialing means that you don't have to ssh to the firewall
and "manually" run pon/poff.
> The MB has a serial port and I have 3 PCI slots, a PCI-E x 16 and 2
> PCI-E x1 free. (Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe AMD AM2, Athlon 3800+, 1GB ram, lvm
> on raid1 dual 80 GB Seagate SATA drives).
>
> What is the current wisdom for a solid reliable modem? Should I go
> external via the serial port or internal? Is USR still the defacto gold
> standard?
For consumer-grade hardware modems? Is there anyone else?
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Is "common sense" really valid?
For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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