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At 11:32 PM 5/18/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi everyone,
>
>I have a modem which I think have been hit by a power surge. The modem
>autodetects in Windows, but cannot be queried?? It does not respond.
>Does this mean the modem is toast? If so what is a good brand to get?
>Also how do I tell the difference between a winmodem and a hardware
>modem? After a quick look at pricing it seems winmodems are much
>cheaper. Do they work at the same speeds??
>
>Thanks,
>
>Adam


Recently a friend of mine had 3 modems w/ same symptoms at his place of
biz.  He attributed it to power surge also; Verizon found ungrounded
terminals on his line.  He had to replace all modems.

As for winmodems, they're usually cheaper, and always require
windows.  Some may say soft modem, or words to that effect.  Until the
above mentioned incident, it's been years I've used any modems outside of a
laptop in some hotel room (and even some hotels now have broadband
connections).  HTH


Ian Carmichael

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