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- Posted by Gary A. Edelstein on February 23rd, 2008
On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:08:49 -0800, "anon" <user@dialup.com> wrote:
have an external serial port you can consider an external modem too.
http://www.usr.com/products/modem/mo...p?sku=USR5610c
http://www.computergate.com/products...prodcd=DFU2976
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- Posted by anon on February 23rd, 2008
Hello . I'm thinking of purchasing a new 56k v.92 modem. I would like to
purchase a hardware-based modem. How would I be able to tell if a modem is
hardware-based or is a Win/Soft modem? It doesn't state on the box itself or
in the ads what kind of modem it is. I made the mistake of purchasing a USR
56K PCI v.92 modem assuming it was hardware based. I would like to use my
old ActionTec v90 modem (it performed flawlessly) but it's ISA and it's all
PCI on my mobo.
TIA.
- Posted by GordonD on February 23rd, 2008
In article <13s0rq7k0gipm89@corp.supernews.com>, "anon" <user@dialup.com> wrote:
PCs softmodems have virtually no impact on speed. In my case (noisy lines) an
LSI (Lucent) softmodem works far better than any hardware modem I've tried.
Its virtually impossible to tell from the box. You may want to check out
http://modemsite.com and companion the companion discussion board.
good luck with your search.
- Posted by Franc Zabkar on February 23rd, 2008
On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:08:49 -0800, "anon" <user@dialup.com> put
finger to keyboard and composed:
Look for a modem that has a flash EEPROM and a static RAM chip:
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.c...c?dmode=source
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- Posted by R.L. Horn on February 23rd, 2008
On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 22:26:36 GMT, GordonD <me@privacy.net> wrote:
They tend not to do you much good if you're not running Windows. Not that I
know that's the case with the original poster.
Most modems still available do leave a lot to be desired on the analog end.
Even the late-model externals from USR were pretty cruddy (probably due to
replacing off-hook relays with solid-state switches). My last Sportster was
a better radio than modem.
I suppose I got lucky: I found one junk box full of Couriers and another
full of 20V transformers.
- Posted by GordonD on February 24th, 2008
In article <slrnfs1djq.1n6.news@hani.compact.internal>, news@eastcheap.org wrote:
I know what you mean. I have more than a half dozen Lucent Softmodems and the
ones with relays consistently connect 2 to 4 Kbps faster than the solid state
versions.
I never had much luck with USRs. I have an original 5610 I think the
"a" version. and the original USR winmodem. Both are built like tanks but
don't work well with noisy lines.
- Posted by anon on February 24th, 2008
"anon" <user@dialup.com> wrote in message
news:13s0rq7k0gipm89@corp.supernews.com...
Thanks for the helpful links and replies. The reason I prefer a hardware
modem is because I play FPS games a lot online on an old system (Athlon
900MHZ, 512Meg RAM, Voodoo 3 2k onWinXP) and I try to squeeze the last drop
of performance out of the rig. With my current USR v.92 softmodem (model
5660c) I'm getting pings > 300 ms with 30% pl so I'm hoping that a new modem
would help me with my connect (crappy phonelines and ISP issues
notwithstanding). Thanks again!
- Posted by Man-wai Chang ToDie on February 26th, 2008
anon wrote:
You can't be wrong with US Robotics Performance Pro 5610C.
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