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Best Data External USB Modem

jpetermann

jpetermann

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Was strolling through my local Office Max, and found a shelf of "clearance" items. On the shelf was three Best Data USB Modems. I always wanted to try an external (don;t know why, just wanted to)so I bought one. Sticker said $19. Got home and looked at my receipt, and it was only $9! I went back and bought the other two. I know nothing about Best Data. I did hook it up tonight, and it worked just fine. Was REALLY easy. Easier than any internal I ever installed. Anyways, you all might find some of these at your OM!
 
That's about all these things are worth. I owned one at one time. Paid full price for it. And the thing died after only about a year. It would WORK, but it would not hang up the line when I was done. Even with the computer off, it just happily took the line off the hook for me.

No Windows 2000 driver support.

If you're looking for a cheap modem for Win 98, that's fine. But you might need all three of them you bought...

Just my two cents...

--Christopher



 
OMG! That's the same thing that happened to me with my BestData USB modem and Gigabyte GA-5AX motherboard. The dang modem would not hang up the line after being done!

I think it is something wrong with the Gigabyte's USB implementation because the same modem works fine in my Tyan S1598C2. I noticed my Gigabyte assigned interrupt 4 to the modem (and the USB controller got interrupt 11) but on my Tyan, both the modem and USB controller got interrupt 11.

I think all USB peripherals are supposed to use the same interrupt as the USB controller and therefore something is confusing the Gigabyte.

The modem performs well on my Tyan -- I've been real happy with it. The worst thing about it is that Best Data has no plans on providing Win2K drivers. This makes me mad -- you would think any USB peripheral is a natural to have Win2K drivers.
 
The driver problem is the reason I dumped it. The not hanging up the phone line wasn't terrible (I just had to remember to pull the phone cord out of the back of it when I was done online.) But since I've switched over to Win2K only, it had to go.

I guess the whole point is moot since the Airborne Express guy is delivering my DSL modem today...🙂

--Christopher
 
Might be, the internal hardware of the modem,
still trying to use IRQ4 as if it were on a comm port.

Com1,and 3 share IRQ4
Com2,and 4 share IRQ3

Usually. So maybe it has the same internal hardware as their serial version external.

But I digress...
 
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