On Mon, 2002-06-17 at 16:58, Ed Cogburn wrote: > ben wrote: > > > On Sunday 16 June 2002 08:02 pm, Steve Brown wrote: [snip] > Funny, I've heard this external-is-better for years, but I've been using > internals for more than a decade and never had problems with them. An > external is just one more box taking up space somewhere on my crowded > table. As for lights, I don't have that problem, the lights are on the > command bar at the bottom, either in Windows or Linux/X/KDE. Lights > aren't that helpful anyway, they can't tell you whether the delay is > temporary or your ISP connection is hung permanently. A good internal > one is just as good, and a tad cheaper, than an external one. I'm using > a USR PCI faxmodem, model #5610.
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