L.V.Gandhi wrote:
On Friday 08 Nov 2002 1:02 PM, John Richard Smith wrote:OK, that's a good reason, do you have a parallel port spare, as many
L.V.Gandhi wrote:I am thinking of going for pIV. Most MBs have only one serial port. I need that serial port for my handheld connection. Hence I am thinking of USB modems. Further whether 56Kbps USB modem will be better than its serial counterpart?
Whether all USB external modems work properly in Linux. Whether there isI tired a few USB modems which were sold to me as hardware
also winmodem?
controlled, I returned them, none of the USB dialup modems
are hardware controlled they all need software.TI don't think
the situation has changed.
In any case what's wrong with a nice serial port hardware
controlled dialup modem. You don't need to be plugging
modems in and out all the time.
hardware controlled modems can plug in both.
As for USB , in my experience , admitedly that is limited , all the hype
about faster speed from usb ports is just that, hype, it's just that so
much is going USB , one cannot be out of it.
For instance, I have a usb printer that can also be parallel port, and just
for a simple test on my own behalf , I sent the same print job on the same
computer via both ports to that printer , and I could not detect any
difference at all. I wonder what if anything is other people's experiences.
I believe , by all means correct me if I'm wrong, that there isn't in everyday
ordinary user terms much if any difference between serial, parallel,and usb
the only exception in my limited experience is scsi devices which are
better at handling data. So right now I doubt if you would notice any
difference between a usb modem, and any other connection type. Of
course I don't have ADSL, maybe things a different there.
What are other peoples experiences , I for one would be interested.
John
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