Re: modem: internal or external?

2006-10-21 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 23:00:27 -0400 "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > > Internal or external, prepare to spend in the neighborhood of US$50 to > US$100 for a modem. The reason is that you want a hardware modem, not > one of those crappy winmodems. As long as go with that,

Re: modem internal or external

2006-10-20 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 03:11:55AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Always external otherwise it's time to buy a new computer after the next > lightning hit. Internal modems allow lightning inside computers. > External modems have a little wire and that can get hit and taken out and > give you a c

re: modem internal or external

2006-10-20 Thread Jude DaShiell
Always external otherwise it's time to buy a new computer after the next lightning hit. Internal modems allow lightning inside computers. External modems have a little wire and that can get hit and taken out and give you a chance that lightning stops with modem and doesn't go inside computer.

Re: modem: internal or external?

2006-10-19 Thread Eric Belhomme
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > What is the current wisdom for a solid reliable modem? Should I go > external via the serial port or internal? Is USR still the defacto gold > standard? > Don't care about the brand of the modem, but prohibit _any_ internal ones ! The reason

Re: modem: internal or external?

2006-10-18 Thread M-L
On Thursday 19 October 2006 12:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] shared this with us all: >--> I'm building a new computer (Etch is installing over dial up now), >--> but all my modems are internal ISA. So unless I want to have to fire up >--> my 486 just to dial out, I need a new modem. >--> >--> The MB has

Re: modem: internal or external?

2006-10-18 Thread Russell L. Harris
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I'm building a new computer (Etch is installing over dial up now), > but all my modems are internal ISA. So unless I want to have to fire up > my 486 just to dial out, I need a new modem. > > The MB has a serial port and I have 3 PCI slots, a PCI-E x 16 and 2 > PCI-E x

Re: modem: internal or external?

2006-10-18 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/18/06 21:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm building a new computer (Etch is installing over dial up now), > but all my modems are internal ISA. So unless I want to have to fire up > my 486 just to dial out, I need a new modem. That's a perfect

Re: modem: internal or external?

2006-10-18 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 10:51:25PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm building a new computer (Etch is installing over dial up now), > but all my modems are internal ISA. So unless I want to have to fire up > my 486 just to dial out, I need a new modem. > > The MB has a serial port and I have