[pchelpers] Re: question please

Whatever the modem was, it was unlikely to have been a software driven
winmodem. They are PCI cards and require a minimum of a pentium 150 to
work. Can't remember seeing any 486 machines with PCI slots (although
there may have been some). There were, however some ISA type internal
modems that were very well made and were hardware driven. These would be
the equal of any external modem at the same speed.

Are you sure the external one you had wasn't a 33.6k model or even a
28.8k?

Nigel wrote:
> 
> The old Lucent winmodem I used to have in my 486-100 ALWAYS gave me
> better
> download speed than the poxy external one I am now using on my modern
> computer!  Apart from portability, I would prefer an internal one.
> 
> There.  I've mentioned internal modems AND win modems!!!  Twice I have
> sinned.
> 
> Nigel

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