Re: Dial-up holdouts ask: Why go to broadband?

Installing a modem isn't much more difficult than screwing in a light bulb. Also, when ordering a new computer there's almost always an option for a modem.

This isn't going to be the deciding factor.

A_C

Can't remember _ever_ having seen a laptop without a modem, not for at least a decade!

At the moment. Remember when all PCs came with 5.25" floppy drives? or ISA slots? Heck the 3.5" floppy drive is becoming optional now.

Yet....

Some configurations cannot even use modems. A dial up modem will not work in an any Athlon 64 chipset. If I try and use a modem in my Athlon 64, the modem will not work. Same thing happened when I upgraded to Athlon 64 machines a couple years ago. I had to buy new video cards, becuase the old PCI cards would not work with the machine. PCI modems will not work with Athlon

There are already chipsets out there that will not work with dial-up modems.

Let's not forget about the external option as a last resort. These modems actually work better too.

A_C

That's a gigantic piece of misinformation.

I don't doubt you had issues getting a dial-up modem to work, but the assertion that all Athlon 64 chipsets don't support dial-up modems is totally and completely erroneous.

A_C

"Charles Newman" hath wroth:

Baloney. Use Google to search for "Athelon 64 modem" and notice the rather large number of such systems being sold with modems. It would be a fair assumption that these modems are functional.

I have a laptop with an Athlon 64 and it has a dialup modem, in addition to Ethernet, wi-fi, etc.