Hello LEE!

Friday August 27 1999 13:48, LEE ARONER wrote to JONATHAN DE BOYNE POLLARD:

 LA>    And another voice for external modems. One problem with internals
 LA>    that no one else has mentioned is that the on-board com ports do
 LA>    jam from time to time and the ONLY way to unjam them is to power
 LA>    the pc down...not so with an external, and then there is the
 LA>    matter of the LEDs on the externals...great diagnostic aids!

Right on!  In fact, a system at work has a Gateway Telepath II (really a
rebadged USR Sportster) which has this very problem every now and then.  When
it happens the modem freezes up completely and won't go back on hook until the 
machine is shut down.

I've never had that problem with an external.  Speaking as the owner of 3 USR
Courier V.Everything externals, I recommend them highly.  I have 2 of them
sitting underneath my monitor right now; and another one on my "game" machine. 
All of them run 24/7 and I've yet to see any heat problems.

Andrew

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