Any suggestions for 56K fax modem?

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Hi,

On Wed, Oct 13, 1999 at 04:07:36PM +0100, Peter Lister wrote:
[..]
> > Yep, ELSA, and to a certain extent, USR.  Most others suck.  Really.
> 
> Based on the April 1998 1.1.X doc, this thread, and what's available in
> the UK, I decided to go for an ELSA [..]

Shouldn't be the works possible choice...

[..]
> >From Action's catalogue (www.action.co.uk), I see the following
> (ignoring
> USB and ISDN kit)... I assume that "PC card" means PCMCIA, not PCI...
> 
> Action #                                                        GBP (ex
> VAT)
> -------- ------------------------------------------------------ ------
> 49-94-83 ELSA MicroLink 56K PC card - modem			113.00
> 49-53-58 ELSA MicroLink 56K PCI Fax Modem (Internal)		 37.59
> 49-17-76 ELSA MicroLink 56K Internet Fax modem (external)	 49.39
> 47-31-87 ELSA MicroLink Office 4-in-1 56K Fax modem (external)  132.50

I'm impressed.  But then, that's what they did here - sold one (the
MicroLink 56k basic) for less than 150 DEM, approx. 50 UKP.

I'd NOT take an internal PCI card (how do you do an modem reset?), but
besides this, the prices look like "just try it out and report back to
us"... :-)

> At 37.59 (I checked, it's the same price in the dead tree editon of the
> catalogue), does this *really* do everything right, or do ELSA also sell
> winmodem/rockwell/lucent junk as well as the decent stuff? As far as I
> can see there are no other (UK licensed) products on the ELSA web page.

I'm not really sure.  The MicroLink Office is definitely the Real Thing,
haven't look into the ML Basic yet - but most likely, it's cheap because
it's a plastic case (the classic MLs have metal bulletproof cases), has a
squeaky speaker, and so on... - but I don't really see any reason to use a
different chipset than what they have...

> I'm planning on getting at least one Office 4-in-1 anyway: having the
> ability to store incoming faxes with the system down seems very useful,
> especially as Gert promises for the user interface in the standalone
> mode.

I'll try to get something working "real soon now".

gert
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