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- From: an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Anthony Hill)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Which is better: Internal or External Modem
- Date: 1 Apr 1996 01:34:08 GMT
- Organization: The National Capital FreeNet
- Sender: an171@freenet2.carleton.ca (Anthony Hill)
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- Reply-To: an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Anthony Hill)
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- Russell Gosse (rgosse@interlog.com) writes:
- > I have the feeling this subject has been tackled before - this is my
- > first time in this group. I'm thinking of purchasing 28.8 modem and
- > was wondering how people felt about internal modems. With internals,
- > you don't get the lights and you have to boot the PC if the modem
- > hangs - at least I used to have this problem before. Are the modems
- > more reliable now that this kind of thing doesn't happen too much?
-
- If you get a good modem you shouldn't have it hang to often, but
- good modems are really hard to come by, and most of them aren't availible
- as internals. In general, I'd say that modems are less reliable now then
- they used to be, so if you buy a cheap 28.8 internal, don't be too
- suprised if you're reset button gets a bit of a workout. As for the
- lights, if you run Windows you can get one of a number of programs that
- will display some of the lights for you, although there are some problems
- with this method. Of course, if you don't run Windows then you're choice
- of light software is rather limited (eg none in some cases). Also, many
- new internal modems are configured via Plug 'n Pray instead of with
- regular old jumpers to set the com port and IRQ. This again can cause a
- lot of problems, especially if you don't run Win95.
-
- Anthony
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- Anthony Hill | an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA
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