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| Thread ID: 60489 | 2005-08-03 08:26:00 | External modem ... USB or Serial? | Oggy (5399) | Press F1 |
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| 377867 | 2005-08-03 08:26:00 | Probably going to ditch the internal modem and get an external one to free up a pci slot for a firewire card. Do I get a USB or a Serial modem is the question? Oh ... for dial up ... not broadband. Any compelling reason to pick one over the other? Price isn't really an issue. $82 vs $95 or something like that. |
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| 377868 | 2005-08-03 08:28:00 | Serial | bartsdadhomer (80) | ||
| 377869 | 2005-08-03 08:36:00 | Serial Why? |
Oggy (5399) | ||
| 377870 | 2005-08-03 08:53:00 | $82 vs $95 or something like that.Why spend that much.. go to TradeMe and get a secondhand one. When I was on dialup, I picked one up for $35 (Dynalink 56k), secondhand, worked (and still does as far as I know) up until we got ADSL Oh... and serial |
Myth (110) | ||
| 377871 | 2005-08-03 09:14:00 | Why? Bullet proof. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 377872 | 2005-08-03 09:19:00 | usb modems are basicly winmodems. serial modems are hardware modems hence the higher price. they have less over heads and far less driver hassles. | tweak'e (69) | ||
| 377873 | 2005-08-03 09:19:00 | Serial RS232 have their own on board CPU that controls the modem. USB is just an internal modem in drag, with the added overhead f the USB interface. Serial RS232 everytime, no doubts here. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 377874 | 2005-08-03 09:23:00 | Thanks everyone. That sounds pretty unanamous. Serial it is. And my IT guy at work offered me an old serial dynalink for free today so I suppose I'll give that a crack. Cheers! |
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