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Offline aldo_14

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Broadband modem advice?
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.
 

Offline Turnsky

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Broadband modem advice?
Reply #1 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..:)
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Offline diamondgeezer

Broadband modem advice?
Reply #2 on: November 28, 2003, 08:48:22 am
ISP not giving/selling you one? Who you going with?
 

Offline aldo_14

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Broadband modem advice?
Reply #3 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.
 

Offline Fineus

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Broadband modem advice?
Reply #4 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...
  

Offline Stealth

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Broadband modem advice?
Reply #5 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...
 

Offline kasperl

Broadband modem advice?
Reply #6 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.
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Offline Stealth

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Broadband modem advice?
Reply #7 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.
 

Offline kasperl

Broadband modem advice?
Reply #8 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.
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Offline Setekh

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Broadband modem advice?
Reply #9 on: November 28, 2003, 07:24:52 pm
*cries quietly in the corner* :p
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Offline Levyathan

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Broadband modem advice?
Reply #10 on: November 28, 2003, 08:09:49 pm
Three more months. Yesss... Three more months.
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