[wellylug] Modem recommendations

[Centurion Computer Technology Ltd]

On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 21:34, Jamie Dobbs wrote:
> Any ISA Hardware modem, try and avoid PCI modems. Of course this assumes
> that your PC has ISA slots (most modern motherboards do not have ISA slots),
> but I have been told that you can get some non-Windmodem PCI modems.
> As an aside I have got Winmodems to work under Linux but in general their
> performance (in Windows or Linux) is not up to that of a hardware modem.

Actually I have found that Win-modems perform as good as, if not better than
hardware modems on reasonable spec machines, esp in compression.  The
only downside is having to rebuild the drivers every time you change
kernels. 
 
Regards,
-- 
	Daniel Reurich
	Centurion Computer Technolgy Limited
	
	Ph: (04) 565 1832
	    (025) 374 387
	    
	email: centurion at paradise.net.nz



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