I'm building a new computer (Etch is installing over dial up now), but all my modems are internal ISA. So unless I want to have to fire up my 486 just to dial out, I need a new modem.
The MB has a serial port and I have 3 PCI slots, a PCI-E x 16 and 2 PCI-E x1 free. (Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe AMD AM2, Athlon 3800+, 1GB ram, lvm on raid1 dual 80 GB Seagate SATA drives). What is the current wisdom for a solid reliable modem? Should I go external via the serial port or internal? Is USR still the defacto gold standard? As far as the computer itself goes, the only advantage of an external is that the bios has a power-on on ring via external modem. I don't think I need that. Thanks, Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
