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- From: Bob Brody <brody@primenet.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: 2 modems in the same computer?
- Date: 12 Feb 1996 05:35:02 -0700
- Organization: a computer
- Sender: root@primenet.com
- Message-ID: <4fnc5m$4j3@nnrp1.news.primenet.com>
- References: <4f0lqm$fdn@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca> <4fjmb0$njr@mips.pfalz.de>
- X-Posted-By: brody@usr1.primenet.com
-
- Rumor has it Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.pfalz.de> wrote:
-
- >You can connect two modems to the same phone line, and you can connect
- >both modems to the same computer (and if you run something resembling an
- >operating system you can access both modems at the same time), but of
- >course you can't *use* both modems at the same time, so I can't see any
- >sense in this setup.
-
- Actually I was curious about the same question the original poster
- asked. The sense to the setup (or perhaps lack of sense, which is why
- I'm curious) is that I have a data modem (external) I use. I also have
- an old fax/modem (internal) from a previous computer plus respective
- fax software. That modem is way too slow for every day data use (only
- 2400 baud) but on a rare ocassion I would like to fax a memo. I don't
- have a fax machine at this location. So I thought, hmm, maybe that old
- fax/modem would suffice for faxing a short memo, hence having two
- modems for the same computer; the faster every day external on COM 1
- and the fax/modem internal via COM 2 for those occasional faxes. So
- far I haven't gotten it to work but I think that's a matter of my not
- properly disabling or enabling COM 2 to make the handshake.
- (Diagnostics confirm the I/O's card with COM1 and COM2 available.) No
- biggie, it's nothing mission critical and I'll eventually figure it out
- but just wanted to mention, from my end at least, why I've contemplated
- having two modems installed.
-
- Regards,
- Bob
-