Sorry, Russell... I intended this to go to the list:
Russel Brooks wrote:
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> Nathan Russell wrote:
> > 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 softwar
There are hard internal modems. Look at the instructions on how to install it
for Linux. It may say that you just make a symbolic link /dev/modem to an
existing device, or it may have you make a device /dev/ttyS4 and run setserial
on it, and still be a hardware modem. But if you have to install a
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 th
Nathan Russell wrote:
> 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
> o
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
