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Modem Question/Recommend

I don't know, but I wouldn't buy a Diamond product...they've been through too many ownership changes.
You get a winmodem either way, so if you don't want to pay $42 for a real modem, you might as well get an Archtek or AOpen.
The current Diamond modems are actually Best Data, BTW.
 
Hmmm... I can't tell the difference for the Diamond but I've been using a brand AirLink+ for my XP and it works great. I got mine for $9. It was brand new, never opened, original price was like $17. Not sure if they still have the promotion but you might want to check it out from Fry's Electronic
 
If I remember correctly, the "PCI Pro" model has a hardware DSP, whereas the vanilla model does not. These features don't matter on any modern Windows PC that's less than say, 4 years old. Controllerless modems are often called "WinModems", which emulate these missing chips through drivers. On today's fast CPUs, their alleged resource usage is almost negligible.

Long story short: hardware-based modems are a waste of money, unless of course, you need to something that's guaranteed to work on several different platforms.
 
Winmodems with the following chips are preferred by modemsite.com.
LT
lucent
agere

These are variants on the original LT chip.
 
Originally posted by: Erasmus-X
If I remember correctly, the "PCI Pro" model has a hardware DSP, whereas the vanilla model does not. These features don't matter on any modern Windows PC that's less than say, 4 years old. Controllerless modems are often called "WinModems", which emulate these missing chips through drivers. On today's fast CPUs, their alleged resource usage is almost negligible.

Long story short: hardware-based modems are a waste of money, unless of course, you need to something that's guaranteed to work on several different platforms.
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...or if you're a gamer still stuck on dial-up.
 
I would go with a U.S. robotics. I have owned several Supra modems (back in the day Diamond), and was not to impressed with it. Drivers were always released in a beta stage and I had nothing but instability problems with them.

1 U.S. robotics v.90 later. I couldn't be happier. If I was still on dial up, thats what I'd do.
 
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