On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 12:42 am, Katipo wrote: ---> Yuri Gorshkov wrote: ---> ---> >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- ---> >Hash: SHA1 ---> > ---> >Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: ---> > ---> > ---> > ---> >>The only dialup modem to get is an external USRobotics 56K modem. It ---> >>hooks up to your serial port and is always recognized w/o driver needs. ---> >>I will never ever get another modem. I also live where there is no ---> >>broadband. ---> >> ---> >> ---> >Hey, believe me... The best modem you can buy is the old Courier V.EVR ---> >and 25MHz clock speed. They're doing great even on terrible lines, have ---> >HST (as the last option) and they're reliable. You may also try an ---> >unofficial firmware if you have a bad line. Here in Russia we use ID_SDL ---> >and it performs great (but is almost unknown by non-Russian users...). ---> >Also we have very bad lines here sometimes... so... stick with USR (or ---> >Paradyne... if you want to pay $1000 for a dial-up modem ;)) ---> > ---> > ---> > ---> Just get a Maestro Woomera. ---> ---> It's based on a Rockwell 56K chip, so it's recognised during install, ---> and has many other features including self-adjusting resistance level to ---> compensate for line fluctuations. ---> In five years, in a rural setting with wild line fluctuations, I've ---> never had a connection drop at my end. ---> --->
I second that and we run it off a telephone line that is not much better than two tin cans with a piece of string in between, in the bush. -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now. .......................................Henry David Thoreau *********************************************** Debian Sarge 3.1.......... loving it ___________________________________________________________ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]