[wellylug] External Modem

[franck]

I saw a 28.8k motorola modem for 20$ at the saint vincent de paul second 
hand shop in newtown. 'don't know if it's a usb or serial modem.

Franck

Le 21/03/2012 08:55, Jeff Hunt a écrit :
> 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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