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[Erik Hovland]

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On Thu, May 11, 2000 at 12:16:55PM -0700, Josh Barratt wrote:
> I imagine you wouldn't have good luck with a USB modem (do they have thos=
e?)
> but any modem that works on the serial port should work.

They do, but they typically come with the standard serial port as
well.

> BTW, if you haven't checked the top of the linmodems page before (I hadn'=
t)
> they have some neat ideas for why you might acutally want to use one! (lo=
wer
> Quake latency, anyone?)

I don't know if I agree with John or Linmodem.org about latency. There are
no benchmarks on the linmodem site nor has John actually tried it
himself. On top of that, every cpu cycle is precious to such 3d games
and a linmodem is going to suck more of it which may just outway the
benefit. Of course, if you are that worried about online gaming you
probably should consider investing in dsl/cable.

E=20

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Erik Hovland
USC Linux User Group President
http://sclug.usc.edu/~ehovland/
GnuPG public key: http://sclug.usc.edu/~ehovland/ehovland.gpg

"Your bastard child of a network has grown up, gone to counseling
 and doesn't want to talk to you anymore." - shupe


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