So who makes good hardware modems these days?

Post #71,462

12/30/02 10:22:12 AM

I'm getting more headaches by the day with the Winmodem that came installed in a Dell PII 400 box. I'd love to replace it and get a little of my sanity back.

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Post #71,475

by Another Scott

12/30/02 10:41:04 AM

USR has been trouble-free for me. Pricey though.

e.g. the [link|http://www.usr.com/products/home/home-product.asp?sku=USR5686E|external V.92 modem]. Around $95.

After being bought by 3Com, USR was sold off. I don't have any experience with the post-sale products (I've got an external V.90 Voice/Faxmodem), but I've not heard anything bad about USR modems in a long time.

You might want to check eBay. Zoom and Supra are other brands to consider, but just about any external modem should work equivalently.

Cheers,
Scott.

Post #71,501

by folkert

12/30/02 11:30:28 AM

USR still makes great modems...

[link|http://www.usr.com/products/business/p-business-menu.asp|These] are the ones I always use to this day.

But, as the saying goes I'd go with the one that [link|/forums/render/user?username=lincoln|lincoln] [link|http://www.usr.com/products/home/home-product.asp?sku=USR5686E|pointed out]. Or maybe the [link|http://www.usr.com/products/home/home-product.asp?sku=USR5610B|Internal version].

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Post #71,505

by Andrew Grygus

12/30/02 11:40:08 AM

We use the ActionTech "Call Waiting" PCI modem . .

. . or any convenient external (mostly MultiTech). The ActionTech even has OS/2 drivers that work, but their drivers support only one modem in a machine, which is a real drag.

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Post #71,648

by orion

12/30/02 11:30:55 PM

Re: So who makes good hardware modems these days?

Microtech and Microcom for two of them. USR is also good, but very pricy. Microcom is about the best as far as I can tell, but not as easy to get as a USR modem. I have an old Microcom 28.8K BPS modem that was upgraded to 33.6BPS V.34 with just a single chip. This was back in 1996, but I assume they still make hardware modems. Mine is an external, but I lost the power supply to it in a move in 1998. But it always was reliable, and cost effective and upgradable. MNP Level 10 as well, something that other modems did not have at that time, they only had MNP Level 5.

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