[lug] Modem recommendations

David Anselmi anselmi at anselmi.us
Wed Mar 23 19:22:27 MST 2005


Nate Duehr wrote:
> I'm sorry I never responded to this. Busy week. 
> 
> I tried some cheap internal non-winmodem modem at first many years
> ago and it was constantly going out to lunch. A cheap USR Sportster
> external fixed all ills.

SmartLink 5634 PCV modem (internal, real modem, about $30) has been 
reliable for me for several years (have 2).  Sadly I'm not sure you can 
get them anymore.

I really appreciated the setserial and /proc/pci instructions that made 
their setup program unnecessary.

Dave



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