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Article #9Re: Win Modems
From: Michael Meissner
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 19:40
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 19:40
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Johan Kullstam <kullstam@ne.mediaone.net> writes: > "LittleFish" <littlefish_au[SPAM ME AT YOUR OWN RISK]@yahoo.com> writes: > > > It seems as if more and more people using Windows > > are very dissapointed over the performance of there Lucent Winmodems. In the > > last week I have met 3 people that have taken back there Lucent Winmodem > > because it drops out regularly. If your machine is slower 300Mhz or is > > running a CPU intensive task in the background you can bet that it will drop > > out. Give me a real modem anyday!! By the way real internal modems are > > getting hard to source. Does anyone have suggestions for a Internal Fax > > Voice Data modem? > > one word _EXTERNAL_. yes, i know you said internal but why not expand > your possibilities? since most mice these days are ps/2 or usb, you > probably have nothing on your rs232 ports. why not use it? Some machines don't have serial ports. Some of us already have too many other things on our serial ports (on my system, I have a ups, an X-10 controller, a Palm hot-sync cradle, and the embedded board I'm currently testing). -- Michael Meissner, Red Hat, Inc. (GCC group) PMB 198, 174 Littleton Road #3, Westford, Massachusetts 01886, USA Work: meissner@redhat.com phone: +1 978-486-9304 Non-work: meissner@spectacle-pond.org fax: +1 978-692-4482
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