From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 9 22:26:58 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C82F16A4CE for ; Sun, 9 May 2004 22:26:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rhumba.hulksolutions.com (rhumba.hulksolutions.com [202.157.189.107]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A32D143D1D for ; Sun, 9 May 2004 22:26:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from paul@paultan.org) Received: (qmail 29875 invoked by uid 1532); 10 May 2004 05:26:54 -0000 Received: from paul@paultan.org by Hulk Solutions Mail Scanner uid 503 qmail-scanner-1.22 Clear:RC:0(219.95.152.12):SA:0(0.1/5.0):. Processed in 1.568779 secs); 10 May 2004 05:26:54 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.1 required=5.0 Received: from unknown (HELO avril.paultan.org) (paultan.org@219.95.152.12) by rhumba.hulksolutions.com with SMTP; 10 May 2004 05:26:53 -0000 Received: (qmail 45920 invoked by uid 1012); 10 May 2004 05:26:52 -0000 Received: from paul@paultan.org by avril.paultan.org by uid 1003 with qmail-scanner-1.20 (clamuko: 0.65. spamassassin: 2.63. Clear:RC:1(192.168.0.3):. Processed in 0.061095 secs); 10 May 2004 05:26:52 -0000 Received: from archer.paultan.org (HELO ?192.168.0.3?) (192.168.0.3) by avril.paultan.org with SMTP; 10 May 2004 05:26:51 -0000 Message-ID: <409F12BF.3090509@paultan.org> Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 13:27:27 +0800 From: Paul Tan User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (Windows/20040502) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20040510043201.50561.qmail@web20503.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20040510043201.50561.qmail@web20503.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Help: Tip on Buying External modem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 05:26:58 -0000 Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: > Sir, > I've post something about my internal modem and > unfortunately you've replied that there could be no > possible solution in using a winmodem except if you > are expert in either linux or freebsd. > My question is, if ever I will buy an external > modem and to be sure that I will not waste my money > for the second time(buying a winmodem), wich of the > two should I pick, the USB one, or the one that is > connected to serial port(com port)? > Get the COM port one. For me I prefer something with a Conexant chipset. Has worked well for me throughout the years. Some USB ones are Winmodems. -- cheers, Paul Tan paul@paultan.org