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Winmodems were not popular with anybody except manufacturers, and exponentially increased the support issues with modems as an entire technology. Read: people h
by rhizome 7y ago
Winmodems were not popular with anybody except manufacturers, and exponentially increased the support issues with modems as an entire technology. Read: people had more problems with Winmodems than they did before.
- dotancohen 7y agoNot true in all locales. In 2001 I bought a computer locally (Haifa, Israel) with a winmodem. I installed Red Hat on it, so obviously the winmodem would not work. I could not find a hardware modem locally. The only solution that I had was to go with an ADSL line (250k up, 750k down) which cost a fortune but whose modem would plug into the network card. It would be a full two years before I would see any other home users on anything other than dialup. 750k down in 2001 was so impressive, you could start listening to songs on Kazaa as soon as the download started!