RE: Suggestions for buying a modem

2000-10-12 Thread CHEONG, Shu Yang \[Patrick\]
My modem (USR x2 flashed to v.90 56k) got burnt last week.and I got a replacement for it FOC...after using it for > 3 years (it has a 5 year warranty including lightning...where I live, lightning is a norm)within 1 week. The connection is stable as hell and it connects to the ISP between 42

Re: Suggestions for buying a modem

2000-10-12 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
Shaji N V wrote: > Any one has any suggestions/for a cheap, good modem available ? > And it should work with Debian 2.2 > Get yourself a ZyXEL Omni 56K. It is cheap and very good value for its price. It also comes in USB port model...but I suggest U get the Serial one. Please look up http:/

Re: Suggestions for buying a modem

2000-10-12 Thread Kerstin Hoef-Emden
Hi, On Thu, 12 Oct 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 10:15:11PM -0800, Ethan Benson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 01:03:49AM -0400, William T Wilson wrote: > > > > > > If you really do have to buy a new modem, any modem which supports DOS, or

Re: Suggestions for buying a modem

2000-10-12 Thread kmself
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 10:15:11PM -0800, Ethan Benson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 01:03:49AM -0400, William T Wilson wrote: > > > > If you really do have to buy a new modem, any modem which supports DOS, or > > OS/2 will work, as will any external serial modem. But exte

Re: Suggestions for buying a modem

2000-10-12 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 01:03:49AM -0400, William T Wilson wrote: > > If you really do have to buy a new modem, any modem which supports DOS, or > OS/2 will work, as will any external serial modem. But external modems > usually cost a lot more. they are typically more expensive because they are

Re: Suggestions for buying a modem

2000-10-12 Thread John Griffiths
At 01:03 AM 10/12/2000 -0400, William T Wilson wrote: >On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Matthew Dalton wrote: > >> > It turns out that I have a lucent winmodem which will not work on Linux ( I >> > have done around 2 weeks of research on it !!). So I have to buy a new > >A very few winmodems will more or less

Re: Suggestions for buying a modem

2000-10-12 Thread William T Wilson
On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Matthew Dalton wrote: > > It turns out that I have a lucent winmodem which will not work on Linux ( I > > have done around 2 weeks of research on it !!). So I have to buy a new A very few winmodems will more or less work nowadays. Of course they suck just as much under Linux

Re: Suggestions for buying a modem

2000-10-11 Thread Matthew Dalton
Shaji N V wrote: > It turns out that I have a lucent winmodem which will not work on Linux ( I > have done around 2 weeks of research on it !!). So I have to buy a new > modem. Any one has any suggestions/for a cheap, good modem available in Best > Buy/Circuit City etc.? And it should work with Deb

Re: Suggestions for buying a modem

2000-10-11 Thread kmself
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 11:43:39PM -0400, Shaji N V ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi, > > It turns out that I have a lucent winmodem which will not work on Linux ( I > have done around 2 weeks of research on it !!). So I have to buy a new > modem. Any one has any suggestions/for a cheap, good