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On 16 Apr 1997 14:17:45 GMT, mhoenig@ast.cam.ac.uk (Michael Hoenig)
wrote:
>I have decide to finally buy my own modem and it looks like two 33.6k modems
>have made it to the final choice (because of price/quality considerations
>mainly!): the Psion Dacom Surfer and the Diamond SupraExpress 336i (internal).
>The Surfer got really good reviews, and I would be willing to purchase it
>despite its rather garish (or "stylish" as the PR dept. puts it) exterior. The
>SupraExpress also seems a good choice, and it seems to have Flash ROM which

	FWIW the SupraExpress 33.6i does not have FlashROM.  The
SupraExpress 56k does, the SupraFAXmodems and SupraSonics do, but not
the plain old Express 33.6 (unless this was changed recently and/or
different for the UK as opposed to North America).

>might be a wise investment. But internal modems are more difficult to set up,
>right? All that IRQ bother.

	The SupraExpress at least is a Plug 'n Pray ONLY modem, which
means it'll either be really easy to set up (just plug it in and turn
on your computer) or a HUGE pain in the butt if PnP doesn't work (and,
as you might be able to guess from the Plug 'n Pray name, PnP often
does not work).  Setting the jumpers for comm and IRQ ports isn't
really that complicated.  Com3 IRQ5 almost always works.

	Anyway, as for the modems, I can't rally comment on the Psion
Dacom Surfer since I've never heard of it.  As for the SupraExpress
though, I'd definately avoid that one.  Supra makes soem excellent
modems in their FAXmodem and Sonic line, but in all testing their
Express line is outperformed by the FAXmodem and Sonics by a LONG
margin (like an Express getting 2500byte/s+ on a Network sim test
where the FAXmodems are getting about 3000byte/s).  In that sort of
price range, the modem that I'd personnaly recommend would be the
Motorola ModemSURFR 33.6.

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