[wellylug] External Modem

[Jeff Hunt]

In the days when dailup was common and when I was helping people to
use Linux I bought a dozen or so trademe modems for friends and myself
.

I only ever had success with USRobotics and Dynalink modems of a
fairly conservative look (and presumably conservative internal
design). Any new or stylish external modem didn't work.

Somewhere at home I have an almost unused modem in its packaging that
fits that description and behaves in a promising manner but failed to
work, I think because there is an initialisation string that it either
sends or fails to send and since I bought it as a promising spare I
didn't bother to study deeper. You are welcome to it. I think with a
bit of analysis -it has its instructions - it will be fine.

I also have a modem that I used for a year or two until I went to a
2degrees mobile usb chip. 2degrees costs $25 a month for 2gigs and so
I don't bother with dialup anymore. I'm a tiny bit reluctant to offer
my last working link with dialup, but it is being wasted and  if you
get desperate you can have that.

These are offered with a money back guarantee (they're free) and
support to try to get the temperamental one working. There is a rider
that my wife has recently tidied our junk room......

-Jeff.

On 20/03/2012, Glenn Morrissey <glennstuartmorrissey at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All
>
> Im keeping an eye on Trademe for a 56K external modem (not a USB
> modem). Can someone please let me know what I should be looking for in
> said modem.
>
> Thank you
> Glenn.
>
>
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