[ale] Share my frustration: what do you do for fax/data modems?

[Jeff Hubbs]

I cruise Goodwill and pick up Hayes or USR serial-port modems for ~$5-8. 

I've bought cheap new external modems at HL Computer, etc. but got
burned - I had outgoing faxes with vertical sections missing (one such
modem neatly cut a line item out of a consulting invoice I submitted -
OUCH!) so after that point, I decided to stick with Hayes and USR
thinking that that is *probably* what the efax code was developed against.

Jeff

James P. Kinney III wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 15:38 -0400, Byron A Jeff wrote:
>
>   
>> So I'm looking for ideas. As you can well guess my preference is to have
>> a modem with a controller that functions standalone without additional
>> driver software. I hope to get 56K dialup and fax functionality.
>>
>> I figure I'm just looking in the wrong places. So I'm asking for advise.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>     
>
> I managed to buy an internal PCI data/fax/voice modem a few years back.
> It is a USRobotics. I have also seen external modems at Microcenter.
> Some (most) use USB instead of serial. That works well with Linux now,
> too. I had a USR USB DFV modem that I used as my answering machine with
> VOCP (http://vocp.sourceforge.net/) until it got hit by lightning.
>
>   
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