Adam Bower wrote:
On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 06:00:55PM +0000, Ian bell wrote:
And because all PCs these days have built-in modems, the external ones are available very cheaply - around £10 or less.
I thought nowadays most PCs don't have built in modems, they seem to be going the way of the floppy disk.
This is a very rapidly changing area. I bought a laptop for my wife just over a year ago. it had built in modem and a built-in wireles card but no serial port. I suspect this year the modem is/will be dropped.
Out of interest i've not seen an
external serial modem for sale for less than 10 quid (cheapest i've seen is one for 11 quid from ebuyer but isn't a "quality" brand), perhaps some usb ones are available at that price but lots of them seem to be winmodems which complicates things even more. Just out of interest where have you seen cheaper?
Not looked recently. Again, about a year ago my neighbour got one for a tenner. That may have been the bottom price - perhaps thay are rising now because they are rarer/not in demand.
Ian