buying a 56K modem...

Mike Chalmers mikechalmers70 at gmail.com
Tue Dec 19 11:17:09 UTC 2006


On 12/19/06, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
> Ale Alf <jazz.swl <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > Hi, i need to buy a 56K modem, and of course it should work on linux.
>
> Is there really no broadband offering where you live? Keeping Fedora up to date
> (and secure, as security updates are part of the updates) over dial-up is a big
> pain, and depending on where you live (i.e. whether dial-up connections are
> metered), might also come up very expensive (huge downloads over a slow
> connection = long connection times).
>
> If there is really no other option than 56K, make sure you pick a hardware
> modem as others have already explained, however downloading updates _will_ be a
> problem.
>
>         Kevin Kofler
>
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I use to have a USR modem that worked with Linux. It even had Linux
installation in it's manual, here is the modem-
http://www.usr.com/products/home/home-product.asp?sku=USR5610B .




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