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- From: bretting@insync.net (Greg Bretting)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: External modems are nonsense
- Date: Tue, 02 Jan 1996 15:00:58 -0800
- Organization: - not one of my strong points, really...
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- On 31 Dec 1995 14:01:31 GMT, sheppard_r@ix.wcc.govt.nz (Roger Sheppard..)
- wrote:
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- >>So which version do you think the experts favor? If you say external, I
- >>can point you to a few experts who extensively use internal modems.
- >
- >
- >Well they can't be experts then can they..
-
- Not according to you, at any rate. Frankly, I find such a generalization
- insulting and inadequate. There are cases where an internal modem will
- work just fine; being an 'expert' has nothing to do with it - buying a good
- modem and being competent enough to install it is all that's required. If
- you get a _good_ internal modem and not some bargain basement junker (also
- available in external versions, BTW), you shouldn't have to worry about
- power cycling the machine or needing status lights to debug a connection.
-
- I've always been amused by those folks who find it neccessary to power
- cycle their external modems with any amount of frequency, and then say
- they've got it good because their modem has a power switch they can toggle.
- If these people were to buy better modems to begin with, it would be a moot
- point. Right now I have an external USR Courier V.E that hasn't needed to
- be recovered via the power switch even _one_ time, but then again I was
- able to say the same for the PPI14400HC internal that it replaced.
-
- >I have been involved with Modem for some 20 years, and I would never
- >use a Internal one, I even set up the very first dial up 2400 bps
- >modem here to the USA, used by the Columbus shipping line..
-
- Well bully for you. As for never using an internal modem, I don't suppose
- you own or use a laptop computer, do you? Or are you going to suggest that
- we lug along external modems for those as well? Feh...
-
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- | Greg Bretting |"The whole problem with the world is that |
- | bretting@insync.net |fools and fanatics are always so certain of|
- | --==<< >>==-- |themselves, but wiser people are so full of|
- | |doubts." - Bertrand Russell |
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