On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 00:13, Philipp Thomas wrote:
It ain't necessarily so :(
Faxing with passive ISDN cards needs software to emulate the FAX modem. With semi-active or active cards you don't need software as the boards have their own DSP and processor to emulate a FAX modem in HARDWARE. Wow, I didin't even think about this - I wasn't thinking about faxing with ISDN - I didn't know you can do that. I would still prefer an external thing that sits on a normal standard serial port...
And BTW, DSL adaptor cards do most of the DSL stuff in software too :( That's sad. So do these work in linux? Luckily the local phone company has only external ones that I believe connect to your computer through network. I'll have to double check.
Sadly DSL doesn't make economic sense for my needs. We're limited to 3gb a month, which is just stupid. The local phone company has a deal whereby you can connect with a normal phone line all weekend for a set price. This works out at a quarter of the price of DSL per month, and if you use it for something like downloading movies (or the new SuSE, when it comes out!), it works out at much more data per month. A friend of mine has this and he manages between 700mb and a gig per weekend. Hans