Back in the day, I specifically chose an external serial (RS232, not USB) modem precisely to avoid Winmodems. I still have my V.92 Zoom somewhere, though I no l

Back in the day, I specifically chose an external serial (RS232, not USB) modem precisely to avoid Winmodems. I still have my V.92 Zoom somewhere, though I no longer even have a landline to use it. Somehow, I don't think anything fancier than 1200 bps would work over a VoIP connection, and even that would probably be unusable without error correction.