win-modems

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Sep 26, 2005, James McDonald wrote:
>
>
>keith morse wrote:
>
>>Tim Wunder wrote:
>>
>>>I've just recently left the world of broadband (a nearly $300 cable 
>>>bill will do that) and am faced with several weeks of dialup access, 
>>>until I decide on what DSL provider I'm going to go with. Can anyone 
>>>recommend a winmodem that'll work in linux? I know, winmodems are 
>>>crap, get a real modem... but I'll be using dialup for only a limited 
>>>period of time, so would rather spend $20-30 over >$100...
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>Tim
>>>
>>
>I have used Rockwell/Conexant chipped winmodems [ 
>http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/ ] in the past but the drivers are no 
>longer open source and they want about 14USD for the full speed one it's 
>restricted to 14400 for the trial version. So I would avoid that chipset 
>despite it being on a lot of cheap winmodems.

I've often found used external MultiTech MT2834ZDX and later versions of
the MultiTech MTxxxxZDX line, which are my first choice for fax capable
modems, at RE*PC, a local computer recycler, for about $10USD.

Bill
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