Zyxel, US Robotics, Motorola, etc...there are LOTS of external modems out there. The issue is how fast do you want and what are you planning on doing with it. If only a PPP dialup then go with a non-winmodem internal...much easier to setup.
The main hassle with external modems is that you need to keep in mind that there are two speeds to be concerned with. The serial interface speed, and the connection speed. Good modems have some pretty nice buffers and such so that you can has a serial interface setup at something like 115k but the modem links at something like 64kb/sec. This is just for asynchronous modems, synchronous modems are a whole different beast. There are some proprietary modems out there that can do a bit better than 64kb/sec with some goofy compression and purposely leaving out some bits and reconstructing them on the other side...kinda like what digital fountain does and also how RAID reconstructs data. The hassle with this is that you MUST have the same modem at both ends. /brian chee -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 11:40 AM To: LUAU Subject: Re: [LUAU] serial modem Comp USA has new internal pci ones really cheap. You may want to try there. Al Plant #############################33 On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 17:22:23 -1000, Richard & Michele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was wondering if anyone has used external dial-up serial modem for > sale or > knows which direction to point me to find one thanks. I'm tired of > battling > with winmodems, grrr. Thanks for any help. > > Richard > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.hosef.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luau > -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.hosef.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luau
