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On Tue, 28 Jan 1997 20:07:35 +0000, Robert Wilderspin
<Rob@robwilde.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>I saw an advert in MicroMart for a 33.6 modem that uses the CPU to do the grunt-work 
>for a modem, with just a phone cable as hardware, the rest being implemented in 
>software.  Does anyone have any experience of such a beast?  Particularly, is a 
>P120 enough to use one when running web-browsers, retrieving mail and news, and 
>so on?  Is the software interface easy enough to use without getting annoyed?
>
>Since they're intrinsically software-upgradeable, is it likely that they would support 
>either or both of the new 56kbps technologies?  Assuming Demon does as well, of 
>course...
>
>Thanks for any help.
>--
>Robert Wilderspin
>
I am the (proud???) owner of one of these modems and it works fine,
but if I use Microsoft Explorer it drops my demon connection after 2
min 30 secs.
I've tried changing the idle time for demon etc.  with other
applications like free agent there's no problem.
HELP!!