On Thursday 20 June 2002 07:36 pm, Paul Johnson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 04:54:25PM -0700, Seth Carbon wrote: > > I have seen the light. External good. LEDs are *very helpful* for > > diagnostics. > > Wouldn't that be, "I have seen the lights?" 8:o) > > See how much easier that was? I hate internal modems because they're a > pain to diagnose, they're typically of extremely poor quality of which > price doesn't seem to play a factor in, and the last thing I want is a > device I plug into a line I know goes to the top of telephone poles > subject to lightning strikes slapped directly on my motherboard. > > Another advantage with externals is you have some hope of destroying the > modem before the strike voltage goes on to the computer... >
modems also generate heat; an external modem reduces the cooling load on the system. on top of that, anything that, on breakage, demands that i take the cover off the box just pisses me off for at least half a day. so, at least in my case, that's two good reasons to use an external. ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]