On modems, go with external. I've used US Robotics Sporters to good effect. Supra isn't bad either. There is also a hardware firewall solution that does connect modems as well as broad band type connections. SMC's firewall has a serial port and modem dialing software in flash ROM. I know cause I had to provide email connectivity while a T1 was down. The device in it's simplest form has a serial port (25 pin) and 10BaseT socket for outside world connections and a four port 10/100BaseT switch for inside connections. You control and program it with a web browser connecting through one of the inside connections. Of course if you want to be a real cool Linux user, you go the software route (It's cheaper, too). I'm a hardware geek and use it for speed of set up. The learning curve is not as steep. All that said, I still run firewall software as a second layer of security in case the hardware gets hacked.
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