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Its Happening - People are talking about discontiuing the 56K modem

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  • 30-05-2006 11:26am
    #1
    JimmySmith
    Closed Accounts Posts: 558 ✭✭✭


    Have a look at this.

    http://digg.com/hardware/Do_Modems_Still_Matter_

    I'm hearing the same stuff from friends it other countries more and more.

    Goes to show how far Ireland is behind, when most people here are still dependant on the 56K modem due to being too far from the exchange at only 6 Km - even if all of the exchanges eventually get upgraded.


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    #2
    Urban Weigl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,784 ✭✭✭Urban Weigl


    Further supporting that is Apple Computer's decision to stop including a built in modem in all of their desktop and notebook computers. They obviously no longer think that their customers use it.

    For example, the iBook used to include a built in modem in all models. It was just replaced by the MacBook earlier this month, which no longer does (though it does include gigabit ethernet, wifi and bluetooth)! If you want to still use an analogue 56k modem, you have to fork out for a USB adapter. I predict other manufacturers will follow suit, if they haven't already started doing so.


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    Sponge Bob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭Sponge Bob


    New Dells starting shipping before Christmas 2006 will no longer have a modem built in . By the time they end of line some of their current models in Feb 2007 or March 2007 it will probably not be possible to buy a laptop from Dell in Europe with a modem built in , certainly not a Dell Latitude .

    Dell may keep a cheap one on the market for poor countries like the Inspiron 1300 and that may have a modem built in for a while. Us Irish country people better buy one this year so :(


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    uncle_sam_ie
    Registered Users Posts: 3,191 ✭✭✭uncle_sam_ie


    They've stopped updating the firmware on my USB ISDN modem. Were stuck in the past while the rest of the world moves on. Thanks Noel!


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    watty
    Registered Users Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    I knew we should have bought those modems Sponge Bob was offering to get a few months ago.

    Actually personally I always used external modems as the lightning damage tended to be limited to modem and/or serial port rather than motherboard.


    I have a box load of 28k / 33k internal ISA modems if anyone interested?


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    Sponge Bob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭Sponge Bob


    I am country like you Watty, externals only for me.


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    Solair
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,230 ✭✭✭Solair


    There will still be some demand for 56K modems for the forseeable future. They're not completely dead and burried yet. They're just not going to be as popular as they once were. It'll go the same way as the floppy drive.

    If you want a modem you'll be able to get a USB version quite easily.

    Modems still come in handy for the once in a blue moon occasion when you want to send a fax, or like today when my DSL connection's gone down ... still haven't gotten ot the bottom of that one yet!


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    Laguna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,639 ✭✭✭Laguna


    Solair wrote:
    Modems still come in handy for the once in a blue moon occasion when you want to send a fax, or like today when my DSL connection's gone down ... still haven't gotten ot the bottom of that one yet!
    Yeah, they also come in handy when the fact of the matter is you'll never get broadband and you'll only ever be able to connect to the Internet with a 56k modem (at 33.6k). Viva la Ireland.


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    #9
    Kazu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,309 ✭✭✭Kazu


    the broadband issue in Ireland makes me sick with exchanges not being enabled and with companies like lastmile wireless milking customers :mad: :mad:


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