I understand and agree with all the comments about Winmodems.
But why the strong preference some people have for External
modems?
Recently I have seen comments here favoring External. And
in some research on direct modem-to-modem comms I saw someone
specified EXTERNAL modem there as well. I have used Internal
modems almost exclusively for my own work, primarily because I can
get them at a significant savings over externals, I get one less
box on the desk, and if I play my IRQ's right I can have one
serial line open for other purposes (TNC's, remote control,
etc...).
I understand that it's a tiny bit more trouble to set them up
since you have to find and assign an IRQ - but I haven't had too
much trouble with that. And no, you don't get the lights. I
admit those are nice. But are they that nice? Low-end Internals
cost less than half the price of their external counterparts.
Admittedly, on the name models, the breakdown isn't so great. But
right now I don't need a name modem - though it might be more
reliable, admittedly. My internals cost me the equivalent of $30
U.S. and run in DOS (Arachne and Bobcat) and Linux as well as W95
- so they ARE NOT Losemodems.
And since they are functionally replacing your UART,they should
allow me to run higher speeds with computers that have old UARTS -
and here the price of a new multi-IO board (which seems to be the
way to get a new UART ) is about the same as the internal modem
itself. Haven't tried it yet, but I'm thinking of plugging the
new modem into the 386-16 to see how high I can push it.
So what's the problem? Comments?
Bob
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