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On 09/10/10 13:03, tom brough wrote:
Mary has just dug out a (not so old) USB ZOOM modem. There are some (commercial / tainted) drivers out there that work (limited without buying a license), however just wondering in this broadband fibre optic / 3G dongle age if anyone really used these types of device any longer, or if they are consigned to the "when I was a young lad" trophy case. Tom.
I haven't used a modem in a long while (I have one on my laptop), although that's not to say it isn't a handy thing to have kicking around. I have a US Robotics serial modem somewhere and some 56k PCI modems in the loft.
I dare say there's a few folks out there who can't get broadband and maybe get poor mobile broadband coverage that still use analogue modems or ISDN and I guess they could still be useful for things like connecting into servers (especially if the internet connection to them goes down).
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