[plug] Good modem for Linux?

[Len Bird]

Surely Die Blinkenlights---it is plural!!!!

Leon Brooks wrote:

> Stuart Foster wrote:
> > Can anyone recommend a good modem (preferably internal, but
> > not a winmodem) to use with Linux? I'm looking to spend $100
> > or so.
>
> External modems are generally safer, plus you get das blinkenlights to
> watch.
>
> The LightSpeeds have proven a steady workhorse for me. You generally
> have to do something daft like plug the AC adaptor designed for another
> modem into one's DC-in socket to kill it (-: no, it wasn't me, and it's
> happened at least four times with this one bloke that I know of, now all
> of his modems are 9V DC :-).
>
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