On Friday 20 August 2004 11:07 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > Bryan: > That's excellent advice for those of us who only use desktop machines, but > what is a laptop user supposed to do? Schlepping around an external modem > and its associated wires and power wart would be a real pain.
I have one of the modems on my desk at home. I have DSL so I don't use dial-in at all anyway but I use the external to troubleshoot faulty modems on other computers when I do tech support, usually after lightning strikes. The unit is very small, no bigger than my hand in length and less than an inch thick. It is very light, my guess would be that it would compare favorably to an external floppy drive, if you have seen one of those for a laptop. Power supply is also quite small. Assuming that you carry a laptop in a travel bag as most people do, the modem would tuck in very nicely into just about any pocket large enough for a floppy drive. Of course, if you stick with built-in modems, you are stuck with whatever you get but, as a matter of principle, I would probably refuse to pay for linux drivers for a modem that I already paid for and for which windows drivers are free. -- Bryan Phinney
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