Hard Light Productions Forums

Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: aldo_14 on November 28, 2003, 08:06:12 am

Title: Broadband modem advice?
Post by: aldo_14 on November 28, 2003, 08:06:12 am

fianlly got the f-ing thing ordered, and I'm activated on the 10th next month.... anyways, I'm wondering if anyone has any general advice on buying a modem.  i was just going to buy a farily generic, cheap USB one from dabs (need to connect to a laptop, so I'd rather just move the modem than faff about with a router - though I do have a wireless network card for the lappy) but figured I'd check to see if anyone had any advice / warnings first.

Title: Broadband modem advice?
Post by: Turnsky on November 28, 2003, 08:30:02 am

/me has a usb ADSL modem... speedtouch 530 model, got it with the kit... not a bad system ... at all..:)

Title: Broadband modem advice?
Post by: diamondgeezer on November 28, 2003, 08:48:22 am

ISP not giving/selling you one? Who you going with?

Title: Broadband modem advice?
Post by: aldo_14 on November 28, 2003, 08:53:13 am

f2s.co.uk

I turned down paying 70 squid for the modem - figured I could get one cheaper elsewhere.

Title: Broadband modem advice?
Post by: Fineus on November 28, 2003, 09:10:01 am

http://www.scan.co.uk

They have a good selection of modems for much cheaper than £70...

Title: Broadband modem advice?
Post by: Stealth on November 28, 2003, 10:51:34 am

yeah usually the ISP will either sell or rent one out to you... that's what they did with us, except that instead of having to pay for it, as long as we use their service the modem's free...

Title: Broadband modem advice?
Post by: kasperl on November 28, 2003, 11:19:53 am

USB soudns pretty bad, USB2 doesn't sounds all that bad, but what do i know. all i know is that USB1.1 is rather slow.

Title: Broadband modem advice?
Post by: Stealth on November 28, 2003, 11:21:36 am

USB 2.0 is designed to work at up to 480Mb per second. It is fully backward compatible with USB 1.1. USB1.1 supports two speeds, 1.5 and 12 Mbps. USB 2.0 supports 1.5, 12 (making it backward compatible), and 480Mbps.

Title: Broadband modem advice?
Post by: kasperl on November 28, 2003, 11:23:11 am

ah, i remembered about the same numbers, but either as MegaBIT instead of MBYTE, or a k instead of an m.

Title: Broadband modem advice?
Post by: Setekh on November 28, 2003, 07:24:52 pm

*cries quietly in the corner* :p

Title: Broadband modem advice?
Post by: Levyathan on November 28, 2003, 08:09:49 pm

Three more months. Yesss... Three more months.