I'd forget about it and pay $10.00 for a "regular" modem.
Harry
Texas
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Date: Thursday, September 21, 2000 12:34 PM
Subject: [SaF] winmodems versus modems
>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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