Re: modems

[Dave Rittenhouse <sritt@xxxxxxxx>]

At 03:19 PM 4/10/99 -0400, you wrote:
>so, i've discovered that practically every 56K modem on the planet is
>actually a winmodem, and especially every PCI one.  i managed to get a
>refund on the one i wrote about last time, but that still leaves me without
>a modem... can anyone else tell me what they've had luck with?  i need
>something internal, preferably PCI, but i do still have one ISA slot open.
>
>thanks for any advice,
>rob
>k96rk01@kzoo.edu
>
>p.s. oh yeah.  i'm primarily concerned with linux compatibility, of course.
>
I just bought a 56k 3com-USR faxmodem at best buy, It's ISA and PNP but
it's not a winmodem, It works great, as for winmodems there can't be an
external one because winmodems don't have a UART and use software instead.
So where would you plug it in? and as for  newcom  modem's DON'T buy them
they are junk, I had both a USR and a newcom 33.6 internal modem's, the USR
was much faster. And also what i have found is that PCI modems are not
faster in anyway then ISA modems like the manufactures say.