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- From: Lawrence Kirby <fred@genesis.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: External modems are nonsense
- Date: Wed, 03 Jan 96 21:06:15 GMT
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- In article <4cc69p$eao@drencrom.insync.net>
- bretting@insync.net "Greg Bretting" writes:
-
- >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.
-
- Most problems are configuration related or related to hardware other
- than the modem, and have nothing to do with the quality of the modem itself.
- The status indicators are invaluable even with the best modems, often
- better modems have more comprehensive indicators since the modem
- manufacturers know this too.
-
- >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.
-
- Internal modems are more susceptible to the system and system bus and, in
- my experience, have a higher likelihood of crashing. I agree that external
- Couriers rarely, if ever, crash and that is a good reason to get an
- external modem. :-)
-
- >>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...
-
- In some cases there are obviously overriding considerations.
-
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- Lawrence Kirby | fred@genesis.demon.co.uk
- Wilts, England | 70734.126@compuserve.com
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