Will somebody on 56K suggest a good modem?

[beedubaya]

Unfortunately I live in the boonies and can't get cable or DSL, and satellite is way too expensive. So I'm stuck with 56K. When I built this computer, the first modem I tried was an Intel 56K PCI, worked for five days, then quit. Then I tried a Creative Broadxent internal modem, only connected at 19.2Kbps, and I can't deal with that. Next, I tried a U.S. Robitics PCI Winternal 56K modem, in which the driver shut down roughly after about 15 minutes of being online. I updated the driver and the modem never worked again. Basically, I am tired of getting crap. Now I am stuck on my spare Lucent Win Modem. Can somebody please suggest a 56K modem that actually works. I've heard that external modems are much better than internal PCI ones. It that true? Thanks for any replies in advance.

 

[GameGURU]

meh, external is ok but pci is better, i think. I would have suggested US Robotics...i had one that was really good although i forgot the stupid name...sorry man

 

[OIDanTheManIO]

try a Creative brand modem, i liked them when i had dial-up but now i have cable hi-speed internet ;-)

 

[Vnet]

come on man the externals are the best get a usrobotics messege modem..!! i think its the best... i have a pci usrobotics and it works well ....

 

[Cogwork]

Mines an Ambient HaM Fax modem. Had no problems with it - just the driver has to be installed via system properties as the setup program won't find the comm port. I usually get 49,333 bps on it, and for some reason I managed to get nearly double that once, which doesn't make any sense - not that it was any faster than 49,333 anyway.

 

[Cappy]

i used a modem from a 1 year old sony viao computer its consistan at 48000-49333 im used to 40000-45333 . I was quite surprised .

 

[Fragino]

External is the best and of course most expensive. It has it's own controller and won't have to rely on your system's CPU to run it. Overall, I think that I had better throughput with an external modem.

 

[killians45]

stay away from winmodems. use a hardware driven one instead, better all around constant speed

 

[beedubaya]

I got a US Robotics USB modem, and it seems to be working fine. It will have to do until I get satellite after I pay off my car, which will be in about a year.

 

[ATIRAGEPRO]

"ATI-don't understand?"

What's the big difference between internal and external modems?