On Thursday 29 March 2007 11:46, Hans du Plooy wrote:
On Thu, March 29, 2007 16:48, James Knott wrote:
My ThinkPad R31 had a modem on a daughter board, shared with WiFi. It was a software modem that was supported in later versions of SUSE and worked well. Unfortunately, I lost that modem, when I upgraded the WiFi. However, there are single chip hardware modems available, but I don't know how the cost compares.
I have bought external (serial) hardware modems for as little as (the equivalent of) $25 USD. This was 6 years ago. Surely the manufacturing cost have come down by now?
You need an internal PS2 modem. It is of course the same modem it was 2 years or 4 years ago at the same price of course if you can find one.
Agreed, still nowhere near as cheap as a winmodem, but would you be willing to pay $15 more for a notebook if it happens to have a hardware modem in? I've only had to use my modem once in the last year and a half, but it would have been worth the money for that one time.
Hans
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