On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Scott A. Conway wrote:
> Well, I don't imagine that there will be much difference except for
> the generality that external modems tend to be a bit quicker than the
> equivalent internal counterpart by the same company. What you
> generally get is more features when you buy more expensive modems, and
> USR Couriers have an excellent reputation. I do, however, suggest
> using something to reassign your systems IRQ priorities to give your
> serial transfers precedence to minimize stalls due to the other
> hardware hogging the CPU. I have just such a utility called
> "irqtune." If you would like to have it, just e-mail me, and I will
> send it along. Just make sure that you read the README file so that
> you will know how to install and configure it.
I'm a big USR Courier (external) fan. I've had mine since its 16k8 baud
days, it's performed flawlessnessly until the night lightening nuked it.
Sent it back to USR for repair and they fixed it.
Because the firmware is flashable, I've upgraded it from 16k8 to 28k8, to
33k6 and V90 in the last five years I've had it.
Brilliant piece of hardware. Highly recommended.
Cheers,
Alex
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