I'm interested in people's opinions on this topic, which comes up often
and is a nagging concern to those whose systems came with a winmodem.
Under what circumstances does the winmodem cripple performance and should
be replaced by another winmodem brand or another "real" modem (which, as
I see in ads, costs $50 and up)?
[1]I hear that "winmodems" are worse than the regular ones (which cost
over $50) because they load down system resources doing functions which
happen in the regular modem's hardware.
[2]Some winmodem brands are reputed to be much worse than others. which
are which?
(I have a Conexant SoftK56 PCI Modem(M).)
[3]If you get a reasonable brand, and have a pentium class machine, many
folks do not agree that one must "yank it out and throw it away. They say
that is true for a 486 class machine, but a Pentium would be able to
handle the load. Where are the CPU and RAM dividing lines on this?
(I use the computer to surf the Internet with free ISP's, have Celeron
433 and 32 MB RAM.)
[4]Getting the latest driver for the modem may improve the situation.
thepccat
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