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| 131835 | 2003-03-29 01:22:00 | Will be building up a computer for friends that live in a rural location. What is the best modem for noisy lines? Dynalink ISA internal hardware or PCI winmodem? |
rmcb (164) | ||
| 131836 | 2003-03-29 01:30:00 | If they have noisy phone lines (electric fences etc) and/or a along distance from the exchange, then the best option is the Dynalink external Rural modem II - see their website www.dynalink.co.nz/ | ionic (3474) | ||
| 131837 | 2003-03-29 01:39:00 | I have a friend out in the "sticks" with some experience. He was originally set up with a win-modem and was able to achieve (on a good day) about 1.5kb/s on download. Perchance that he was able to obtain a Dynalink Rural modem which he installed. Now he is overjoyed, in that on a good day he can get 2.5kb/s . ( He is pi**ed at me in town getting 5kb/s :) ) | Pheonix (280) | ||
| 131838 | 2003-03-29 02:42:00 | p.s. if you can't easily locate a dynalink rural modem, plse email me. | ionic (3474) | ||
| 131839 | 2003-03-29 04:13:00 | I am aware that the rural modem would be best, but I already have an ISA and a winmodem here ready to go... | rmcb (164) | ||
| 131840 | 2003-03-29 09:03:00 | the isa will be the better. true hardwaremodems tend to handle bad lines better than most winmodems. | tweak'e (174) | ||
| 131841 | 2003-03-29 11:08:00 | yep definately go with the isa (true modem) over the winmodem I used to have an isa modem in my old pc and while connect speed was lower than winmodem it was very stable with few disconnections. | cronik (3375) | ||
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