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Best cheep 56k modem for a slow system?

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elkinm

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I am looking for an inexpensive simple 56k modem for a slow P-Pro 200 MHz system suring win 98.
I am looking for one that does the camunication and decoding in hardware and uses very little CPU unlike the ones that use the CPU to do most tasks.

Thanks
elkinm
 
Look at US Robotics for an internal modem. They still make some internal hardware modems. Your other option is to get a serial or USB external modem. That device has its own hardware processing.
 
Thanks, I am looking for a hardware modem like this. Does anyone know of a specific hardware modem that I can buy from US Robotics or any other company. It does not enven have to be new even a good ISA interface modem will do as long as it is hardware and is easy on the CPU, but PCI is definetly prefered.

Thanks again
elkinm

P.S.
This system is a 200 MHz P-Pro with 64 MB ram and Win 98 SE. As far a speed goes, is better to stay with the default IE 5.0 or 5.5 or sould I go with the latest IE 6?
 
Originally posted by: elkinm
Thanks, I am looking for a hardware modem like this. Does anyone know of a specific hardware modem that I can buy from US Robotics or any other company. It does not enven have to be new even a good ISA interface modem will do as long as it is hardware and is easy on the CPU, but PCI is definetly prefered.

Thanks again
elkinm

P.S.
This system is a 200 MHz P-Pro with 64 MB ram and Win 98 SE. As far a speed goes, is better to stay with the default IE 5.0 or 5.5 or sould I go with the latest IE 6?
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You might want to try out Mozilla Firebird. Tabbed browsing makes a lot of difference on a slow connection, as you can load up links in different tabs, and they are loaded by the time you want to look at them. Makes best use of your internet connection IMO 🙂

I had lots of luck with a US Robotics external serial modem (beige box about 1"x6"x4"), that gave me great speeds, even better than the old, solid ISA hardware modem I had, went from about 4.6k/sec to 5.2k/sec download speeds on the same phone line!


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