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reboot · 03-30-2001, 05:30 PM

For casual surfing/email a properly installed, and good chipset winmodem will work fine.
If you do any online gaming, or are a power user (multiple browser windows, FTP, email all running at once, all the time) get a hard modem.
Recommended: Lucent LT winmodem if you must have a cheap winmodem.
Recommended: Diamond Supra Express External, no comparison, except maybe with the USR/3com external, but the Supra is half the money!
DO NOT get Ambient/Cirrus Logic, Motorolla, or ESS chipset modems!!!!!!!!! Stick with the Lucent Venus (hard modem chipset, not the Mars, which is the LTWinmodem chipset) or Rockwell/Conexant ACFII

03-30-2001, 05:30 PM	#2
reboot Member (14 bit) Join Date: Mar 1999 Location: Kelowna, B.C., Canada Posts: 9,138	For casual surfing/email a properly installed, and good chipset winmodem will work fine. If you do any online gaming, or are a power user (multiple browser windows, FTP, email all running at once, all the time) get a hard modem. Recommended: Lucent LT winmodem if you must have a cheap winmodem. Recommended: Diamond Supra Express External, no comparison, except maybe with the USR/3com external, but the Supra is half the money! DO NOT get Ambient/Cirrus Logic, Motorolla, or ESS chipset modems!!!!!!!!! Stick with the Lucent Venus (hard modem chipset, not the Mars, which is the LTWinmodem chipset) or Rockwell/Conexant ACFII __________________ Black holes are where God divided by zero... Cheers, Jim Jims Modems