"PCI communications device" vs. actual modems Monday, June 20, 2005 at 6:32 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by DNA (551 messages posted) I couldn't agree more with your terminology. An actual hardware-controller modem is worth the effort to find. Just recently, I swapped a hardware modem (PCI card internal, but a real hardware controller modem) into a friend's computer. They were connecting at around 24 kbps/sec, and they are now connecting consistently at 43 kbps/sec. Same house, same 1950's-era phone line as before (and to the same jack on the wall). Not a bad improvement for $20 and ten minutes...My local "white box" computer store sells a LOT of those $20 Intel PCI card hardware-controller modems (about a dozen a week), so likely it's not just Linux people buying them... If you want a hardware modem in a big box store, you pretty much have to buy an external modem! Written in response to: re: I think the subject gets covered here about once or twice a month (Kiwi: Monday, June 20, 2005 at 4:58 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Where is the modem? Here, modem, here, boy... (David: Mon, Jun 20, 2005, 3:09 pm) re: Where is the modem? Here, modem, here, boy... (KeithT: Mon, Jun 20, 2005, 3:52 pm) re: I think the subject gets covered here about once or twice a month (Kiwi: Mon, Jun 20, 2005, 4:58 pm) "PCI communications device" vs. actual modems (DNA: Mon, Jun 20, 2005, 6:32 pm) re: Where is the modem? Here, modem, here, boy... (JmC: Mon, Jun 20, 2005, 7:04 pm) re: Where is the modem? Here, modem, here, boy... (C K: Tue, Jun 21, 2005, 12:25 pm) re: Where is the modem? Here, modem, here, boy... (David: Tue, Jun 28, 2005, 12:45 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum