Diamond Supra Express PCI, a good modem?

[damocles]

Im looking at this modem to replace my old and dodgy Motorola. Anyone have an opinion?

 

[TheCorm]

I find that there is not a massive difference between most PCI modems.

My mate has this modem and I put one of these in the system I built for my brothers, It's a good modem, you may as well go for it.

If your old motorolla is a 28/33K ISA then it will give you a nice performence boost.
If it's an ISA 56K then the performence increase won't be too noticble unless you were having big problems with the old one.

Diamond do claim that it's "built up from the ground rather than a re-designed 33K Modem" and the software is adequate, a good a choice as any I'd say.

 

[damocles]

My motorola is an old Voice Surfer 56k External. Motorola stopped supporting these a coule of years ago and i always suspected the V.90 upgrade wasnt the best. At the moment i'm willing to try a new modem for piece of mind. I have been getting randon disconnects etc for a while now. I tried a free ISP and still got them, so i think its not the ISP. Tried 2 OSes, WinME was worse than 98,but it still happened. I figure it is the modem or line noise. A better modem should help with both

Cheers

 

[Lounatik]

I took my SE out of my computer because I was constantly getting cut off.I then went and bought a USR External modem and now I dont get dropped at all.Whether this is due to my phone lines(my house is only 4 years old)I dont know.But I really enjoy not being dropped 4-5 times an hour.And BTW ,I did get all of the updated drivers for the modem and tried to tweak it and tweak it,to no avail.


Peace




Lounatik

 

[damocles]

My only other options are DLink or Dynalink if someone thinks they are better brands.

 

[Nethawk]

In homes (offices) with clean analog telephone lines I have had very good experiences with Diamond modems - unfortunately for myself I had to replace my last Diamond modem with a Courier v.everything (which I don't believe has a PCI release).

 

[Soccerman]

I think Diamond's PCI modems are only winmodems.. the PCI one's are SupraMAX, not SupraExpress.

just making sure you know what you're getting!

 

[Mem]

My own Diamond SupraExpress 56i V PRO modem is nearly 2 years old anyway it as served me well so far, always connects in the high fortys(46-49,333bps) so I`m not complaining of course connection rate is down to ISP & phone line etc,but yes I think it`s pretty good,my best mate as one which is still going strong.

 

[Modus]

I doubt a new modem would help. It's probably your phone lines. Just live with it or get broadband.

Though it couldn't hurt to throw in a $10 Lucent LT to know for sure.

Modus

 

[The Wildcard]

I doubt anybody is gonna disagree with you Modus, lol.

 

[damocles]

There are the options in my price range, some are winmodems (if not all)


Dynalink 1456VQH-R1 Internal Modem - Pci Card 56 Conexant
Dynalink 1456VQH-T2 Internal Modem - Pci Card 56 Lucent
Dlink 56k V.90 Internal PCI Bus Modem
Diamond SupraExpress 56K PCI Internal.

 

[damocles]

PS i have had modem problems in 3 flats and have had my teleco company check the lines (which they said were fine). So i'm either pretty unlucky or there is more to this than just phoneline problems

 

[Noriaki]

Dynalink 1456VQH-T2 Internal Modem - Pci Card 56 Lucent

That's what you want.

 

[Modus]

The telco company have no incentive whatsoever to help you with modem connectivity issues. "Fine" to them means you can hear the other guy talking.

Modus