Host accelerated modem s(HAM)

[Chas]

I bought a PCI modem with ambient chipset which is owned by intel The modem is one of the new Intel® MD563X-HaM V.90 chipset(Host Accelerated Modem (HaM))which are supposed to be optimized touse fewer resources than the standard winmodem The price is right but was wondering what the general opinion is Thanks Chas

 

[Lord Evermore]

I'm not sure it's possible to provide THAT much difference between winmodems. The host in HaM is still the CPU, and there's still a certain amount of processing required in order to go from the analog signal to digital. Now if the chip is actually sort of a half-winmodem, where it does some of the processing but only uses the CPU to do the heavier stuff, then that would qualify as using fewer CPU resources, but I know nothing about the chipset.

Given the likely very small difference, I'm not sure it matters what winmodem you get, given the already small amount of resources they take. (I'm still a proponent of hardware modems if you have to use a modem, but once you're stuck on a winmodem, I don't think it matters much.)