What is the best "Real Modem fof Linux" to buy

[Kumara]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Russell" <fedora at drussell.dnsalias.com>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 9:22 AM
Subject: Re: What is the best "Real Modem fof Linux" to buy


> Kumara wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I am going to buy a modem. before that I appreciate your comments on
this.
> > what would be the most suitable modem for FC3? (for serial Interface).
what
> > is the brand and model. (Furthermore, I have an idea to experiment an
> > answering machine on it.) How is US Robotics?
>
> When I used modems I always liked USR external... they were (are?) real
> work horses.
>
> I have a Courier V.Everything, but I only use it for logging incoming
> phone calls now (it has caller id capability)
>
> If you want to use it for an answering machine app, check out the voice
> capability of the modem, and you may want to get an internal modem
> instead of external. (But try to avoid the "winmodems"... some of the
> function is performed in software by the host computer.
>
> Don Russell
>
Thank you very much for the reply
Mohan