Recommended external modems

[peroxidechicken]

Hello all.  I've just come home to find my pc's internal modem is kaput so I'd like to replace it with an external that will also work easily with classic Amigas.  

Any sugguestions?  

[odin]

Er....anything Hayes compatible with an RS-232 connection.

[Argus]

I use a Zoom v34 and a MultiTech v34 without problems at 115200 bps though that is on an 060 through a GVP I/O card.

[Acill]

Look on ebay for a USR Courier 56k modem. They are the best external modem money can buy. i still use my HST dual I had hacked to work as 56k even. In fact here is a ebay search result for you.

http://search.ebay.com/courier-external_W0QQsokeywordredirectZ1QQfromZR8

[jjans]

I agree with USR external modems as a good choice.

I still have an old USR Sportster 28800 that still works great with both my Amiga and PC. I believe I bought it in 1992.

The nice thing about externals is that they are hardware independant. They do not depend on Windows resources for emulation of missing hardware (like internal Winmodems which are usually cheaper).

It is getting harder to find internal PCI modems that are not Winmodems these days. I may be wrong, but my understanding is that WinModems are not compatible with other platforms, (at least I have never managed to get one to work with Linux).

[peroxidechicken]

Thanks guys.  Yeah, Winmodems take that extra little shove to get working on Linux - actually, I installed W2K over my Win98 install just to get my other Winmodem recognised and working this morning.  But I'm still going to have to get another modem some time - so thanks again.  

[BoingBoss]

I recommend using a genuine Hayes modem, they are the best.  That's what I used years ago on my PC, Amiga, and Atari ST computers.  Now I only use a cable modem.  Personally, I do not allow people in my game rooms at Kali if they are still using 56K modems.  A good 56K modem (like a Hayes) can only do up to 2.7 K per second.  That is just too slow by todays standards.  DSL can do about 35 to 65 K per second, which is a little better.  But cable can average 150 to 500 K per second and go up to 10,000 KB per second.  So my advice to you is to pay the $52.00 per month and hook up a cable modem.  It is well worth it.  I can't even handle dial-up anymore.  It is too damn slow and my time is valuable.   :-D

Oh, BTW.... did you know that Hayes invented the modem and has been making modems longer then anyone else, including US Robotics.  If you are still using slow dial-up modems, instead of DSL or Cable, then get yourself a Hayes.  They are THE BEST.  US Robotics are also good modems, but are not the same high quality as Hayes modems.    :-)

[BoingBoss]

Hi Acill,

Look on ebay for a USR Courier 56k modem. They are the best external modem money can buy.

This is simply NOT TRUE !!!!  Hayes produced the best modems that money could buy.  They were also the highest quality modems ever built.  PC World magazine ranked the Hayes modem as number one and the US Robotics modem as number two.   :roll:

[Argus]

I see used external modems in the want ads all the time. Just about anyone will probably work if it is a modern 33k/56k version.  A lot of PC owners have dumped them for cable modem or DSL or internal versions. You could probably get one for practically nothing.  If you are looking for a list of compatible modems, simply install Miami v3.2 and look at the list under MiamiInit (these are the ones that Amiga compatible version strings exist for) and go from there.