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Article #1100Re: What's the best modem?
From: Brainman
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 00:00
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 00:00
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The Hayes has received a number of good reviews in the press, so you probably can't go wrong in terms of reliability. I just bought a complete cheapo Maxtech 33.6 v.34+ that rocks! It was $88 bucks at CompUSA. It's been running around the clock full bore for several days without dropping carrier once. The manual suggests that in the absence of "Maxtech" in the list of modems in comm software, choose USRobotics 28.8 v.34, and goes on to say that AT&F1 will reset the factory defaults to exactly the USR parameters, at the higher baud rate. One other nice thing, the Maxtech (an ISA card) is truly plug and play. I literally didn't set a single jumper, and my AsusT2 motherboard correctly set it to Com2 (I have a serial mouse on Com1) with the proper interrupts and I/O addresses. No small feat when you consider I had a very greedy ATI Graphics Expression (I think there were like 9 I/O addresses it *had* to have), an Adaptec SCSI, and a SB16. I know there have been plenty of horror stories about the grief from PNP, but this setup worked like a charm. Cheers, Kenn White kwhite@wam.umd.edu white@baldr.niaaa.nih.gov
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10d683,4e7151ef69bb49cb X-Google-Attributes: gid10d683,public X-Google-Thread: fa57c,4e7151ef69bb49cb X-Google-Attributes: gidfa57c,public X-Google-Thread: 108c83,4e7151ef69bb49cb X-Google-Attributes: gid108c83,public X-Google-Thread: f70d1,4e7151ef69bb49cb X-Google-Attributes: gidf70d1,public X-Google-Thread: 10a2ed,4e7151ef69bb49cb X-Google-Attributes: gid10a2ed,public X-Google-Thread: 11196f,4e7151ef69bb49cb X-Google-Attributes: gid11196f,public X-Google-Thread: f5f89,4e7151ef69bb49cb X-Google-Attributes: gidf5f89,public From: Brainman <kwhite@wam.umd.edu> Subject: Re: What's the best modem? Date: 1996/12/17 Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95.961217004016.27118A-100000@rac9.wam.umd.edu> X-Deja-AN: 204535861 references: <01bbea3b$dbd28e80$19829a89@dtaylor.st.nepean.uws.edu.au> to: David Taylor <dtaylor@st.nepean.uws.edu.au> content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII organization: University of Maryland, College Park, MD mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt,alt.comp.hardware.homedesigned,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,aus.computers,aus.computers.ibm-pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems