On Thu, 07 Aug 2003, Paul Johnson wrote: > > USB modems tend toward the win-hardware style also. Others on this list > > who use modems will probably be able to give you some advice here (I'm > > on cable modem, so haven't used a modem in some time.) > > I said it when I was still on dailup, I still say it today: If you're > having problems with an internal modem or a winmodem, scrap it, get a > real modem (ie, an external modem plugged into /dev/ttyS?) and move on.
I'll second this - software modems tend to have problems, even under
windows. Using a cheap Intel software modem (device manager shows it
as an Intel 536EP V.92 Modem) gave me a lot of disconnects under
windows. Using an internal USR 5610/2976 hardware modem under linux
gave me much more solid performance [YMMV]. Bear in mind that the linux
machine is a lowly pentium, and the windows machine is an Athlon.
A cheap software modem costs roughly $20. The USR 5610 [OEM] /
2976 [retail] costs $50, and is worth every penny for a dialup user.
Plus, it should work under almost any OS that understands what a modem
is. If that's too much, check ebay, they seem to have the 2976 or
almost identical 2977 for cheap as well.
~ Jesse Meyer
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