Recommend a good modem ?

daveg

Can anyone recommend a good hardware 56K modem (internal). Looking to spend up to €40. Where is the best place to buy on-line ? Komplett are crap for modems.

sutty

There very rare to find. You'd have better luck looking for a second hand external modem (one that hooks up to your parallel port)

halfab

Parallel Modems ? ? I think you mean serial modems

The advice is still sound.. an external is a good way to go, there are several good ones, I remember I used to have a vEverything Courier from USR and it was the bees knees .

Good internals are hard to find, especially PCI ones.
Go with good brands like Diamond Supra Express, or Multitech..

On the External side of things, I found the Elsa Microlink 56K Fun II , quite good even on noisy lines. ( I am not near the city so line quality would not be the best)

Other than that, I would suggest trying to look for a Lucent (Agere) based modems ,as they usually have better driver support (also supported in Linux) and more often than not have better filtering on noisy lines. Dell, Gateway, Compaq all used Lucent based modems in their PCs.

Things to avoid.

Cheap Conexant, or Motorola based modems. A new one to come to market is based on the NetoDragon chipset (Netodragon.?? I know ) .
These modems are usually quite cheap falling in the 15-30 euro mark.
Good performance from these modems is a hit and miss affair, and more usually a miss.
It could be worth a look in the box to see a if a lucent (Agere) chipset lurks there.. It might be worth a chance, if can get a money back guarantee..

My 2 c

Eric

Inspector Gadget

Originally posted by sutty
There very rare to find. You'd have better luck looking for a second hand external modem (one that hooks up to your parallel port)

*cough*serial port*cough*

More seriously, though, http://www.marx-computers.com/ sell a hardware internal modem for E35 inc. VAT...

Gadget

sutty

lol... so I did

Have damn printers on my mind

anywho, the modems listed there are good ones. You'd also what an rockwell (spell) based one as well

Inspector Gadget

Originally posted by sutty
Have damn printers on my mind

anywho, the printers listed there are good ones. You'd also what an rockwell (spell) based one as well

Apparently so
Gadget
P.S.> Rockwell are now known as "Conexant", and from what I've seen most of their modem chipsets are so-called "winmodem" jobbies...