Which USB Modem?

Basil Chupin blchupin at tpg.com.au
Sat Dec 21 00:30:02 EST 2002


Doug.Palmer at csiro.au wrote:

>>The obvious step for you to take is to disconnect the modem from the phone
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>line 
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>>everyday before you leave home. If you disconnect it while you are at home
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>when 
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>>there is the chance of a storm then consider that there will be always be
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>a storm 
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>>when you are not at home - and disconnect. It will saves you heaps of
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>money in 
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>>the long run, yes?
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>Strangely, no. I have a permanent connection and I pay my ISP per megabyte,
>rather than per hour. Due to local call costs, I pay ~30c for each dial-up.
>I make about 30 calls over a three month period, costing me $9. If I called
>up once every day, it would cost me $27. Over a year, that roughly equals
>$70 or almost one dead modem. 
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>In practice, this is not desirable, anyway, since I am running a web server,
>mail server, ssh daemon etc from home as well. http://www.charvolant.org
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>In the meantime, I got a Dynalink 56 USB Pro yesterday, which is a full
>hardware modem. Setup was pretty impressive. I usually spend a couple of
>hours playing about with new hardware before everything runs smoothly. The
>kernel detected it the moment it was plugged in. All I had to do was adjust
>the modem device to be /dev/input/ttyACM0. I couldn't quite get it to come
>up immediately, so I just rebooted and let kudzu take care of things, but I
>think I'd have been able to do it without rebooting if I had taken the
>trouble. Less than 15 minutes work. 
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What did the Dynalink USB cost, BTW?

Cheers.


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