Re: modem: internal or external?
On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 23:00:27 -0400
"Roberto C. Sanchez" <roberto@connexer.com> wrote:
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>
> Internal or external, prepare to spend in the neighborhood of US$50 to
> US$100 for a modem. The reason is that you want a hardware modem, not
> one of those crappy winmodems. As long as go with that, you should be
> OK. I seem to remember about two years ago being in a discount
> electronics store and picking up a box for a USR modem, about US$65, and
> on the list of supported OS's, it included Linux 2.2.14+, or something
> like that. So, they are out there.
>
> Regards,
>
> -Roberto
As everyone says, go with an RS-232 serial (not USB!) hardware /
controller-based modem. They can be easily found for under $20 used or
even new on Ebay (this is as of about a year ago). I've been using a
USR 5686-02 (note that it only supports v90 and can't be upgraded to
v92. 5686-03 and later either support v92 out of the box or can be
flashed to do so).
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