so I should just keep my mouth shut and not suggest there might be alternatives? Like I said, I got that specific modem to work as a newbie, thats all. Did I suggest that it was a better choice? No.
Chris On Saturday 03 January 2004 18:41, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Well, having worked tech support before, and having been on the list > for a while, it's often best to just give the easiest answer first. > Yes, you can get many internal modems to work. But we probably don't > know what is involved in getting your ACME SuprSurfr SpeedWhiz 56k > Whatever going, if it's even possible to. > > You lucked out. You have a *real* modem instead of a bass-ackwards > sound card pretending to be a modem, in which it configures pretty > much like any other Serial I/O expansion board, you just get the added > bonus of not having an additional bonus of not having to plug in a > wall-wart and add another cable to the tangled mess behind your desk. > The tradeoff is now your phone line has a pretty good chance of > passing a line surge directly to your motherboard. Your power supply > isn't going to stop that puppy, since it won't be going through the > power supply. With an external modem, most modems of good quality > (USRobotics, Hayes) will sacrifice themselves if a line surge hits, > without passing it to your computer. Having to replace a motherboard > and all the CPUs, cards and drives that were plugged into it is a lot > more expensive than replacing a modem. > > You also don't get lights to tell you what's going on with the modem. > Those lights really, really help if something is going wrong with it. > I find it a tremendous pain in the butt in having to deal with > software to get status of something better displayed conventionally. > > And to quote rick, "But that's my opinion, I could be wrong." > > - -- > .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > : :' : > > `. `'` proud Debian admin and user > `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE/9v7XUzgNqloQMwcRAkOCAKDgEZ40FXOYYsJUy9DrJKu1ysk/YQCeIuDc > 69p3RLvXkIgXlVuBuxr8Bl0= > =w/eO > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler Bodenstedtstr. 13 30173 Hannover -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
