Personally, I always go with an external modem.
It's much less hassle if you need to cycle the power on the modem,
or it's taken out by a lightning hit or other surge in the phone line,
or from some other failure.
It's way easier to swap modems when diagnosing "is it the modem
that's broken, or the phone line?".
It's also been a requirement if you want to run the modem with NT.
Check the compatibility lists for whatever operating systems you
plan to use.
I think you can get a USRobotics/3com Sportster 56k modem for
about $100 now. That includes the built-in DSP, that does the
processing your CPU has been burdened with..
Ken
At 08:27 PM 10/4/2000 -0400, Nathan Russell wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I have noticed significantly better Prime95 times here at school than I
>did at home. On a hunch, I checked the hardware lists on the web, and I
>have what by all accounts is a software modem.
>
>Both to get the Prime95 times at home back up, and since I plan to put
>on a dual boot, I would like to get a hardware modem. My questions for
>the list:
>
>Are hard PCI modems available?
>
>If so, is there a sure way to recognize them?
>
>If not, are any hard internal modems?
>
>Thanks!
>
>Nathan
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