Dial-Up weird behavior

[SteveNielsen]

Re: Dial-Up weird behavior

Good that you got is solved. $4 isn't too bad.

[UserXP]

Re: Dial-Up weird behavior

Yes, I hope it will serve the purpose every time when needed... I noticed that it had much more data when I queried it than my last Lucent modem had.

This US Robotics... well, they seem to actually use Conexant chips printed with US Robotics logo in their PCI modems. The driver package that I downloaded from USR site contained all the Conexant files.

This modem is HSP or soft one, but I don't mind, it doesn't affect the PC at all when it comes to performance/speed. If it works, I won't be repairing it.

[SteveNielsen]

Re: Dial-Up weird behavior

The only problems I've ever seen with win-modem types is them not working under Linux but that was quite a long time ago.

[ratdude747]

Re: Dial-Up weird behavior

The only problems I've ever seen with win-modem types is them not working under Linux but that was quite a long time ago.

Still the case. Conexant's have a proprietary 3rd party driver for a fee ($30?) but that's old and a PITA to use. I'd get a serial modem (not USB, those are also winmodems oftentimes) and be done.

[Agent24]

Re: Dial-Up weird behavior

Probably the modem suffered lightning or some power surge. If you only use it for a backup connection, just leave it unplugged unless you are actually using it.

Software modems suck on Linux. External ones through the serial port work great. Never tried an internal hardware one. I don't think I have any aside from ISA ones which are too old!

[Sparkey55]

Re: Dial-Up weird behavior

I have a shoe box full of used pulled pci/isa modems from pc upgrades.

[Agent24]

Re: Dial-Up weird behavior

Same.

[UserXP]

Re: Dial-Up weird behavior

Probably the modem suffered lightning or some power surge. If you only use it for a backup connection, just leave it unplugged unless you are actually using it.

Yes, that might be the case. However, I can't have it unplugged becaue I use its PHONE jack to connect my desktop telephone to it (and therefore to the phone line via the line cable plugged to the LINE jack on the modem). It is used very rarely for connecting to the Internet, so I'll leave it be. We'll see how long this one is going to last (my Lucent was over 10 years old and in a computer).