>Personally, I usually buy a ~$200 (high-end) external modem myself,
>anyway, because I don't trust the construction and quality on the
>sub-$100 internal modems, Winmodems or not. When everybody was
>complaining about all of the glitches and problems with the USR
>Sporsters, I was using my USR Courier modem with nary a problem.
>Coincidence? I think not. You get what you pay for.
I strongly second this (even though off-topic in linux-kernel). From my
experience with mgetty+sendfax, I can say that it almost never pays off to
save money when buying a modem -- because you spend SO much time getting
it to work afterwards (or even "not getting it to work") that you won't
save anything after all.
The USR Courier/Sporster example is a very good one. The Couriers are
pretty expensive, but They Just Work, while the Sportster series are very
unreliable for everything but basic "data mode" usage.
gert
-- email: gert@greenie.muc.de fax: +49-89-3244814 http://www.leo.org/~doeringA person who has nothing looks at all there is and wants something. A person who has something looks at all there is and wants all the rest.
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