>I believe the answer is "no" because there is no direct connection to the
>phone line with an external modem. You have to go through the computer's
>serial port to get to the phone line. This makes an external "Winmodem"
>impractical if not impossible.
This is not true...external modems have a phone jack just like any other
modem.
Both ActionTech and Viking offer external Winmodems .....and probably a few
others.
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