FYI: [Fwd: Mandrake newsletter: Mandrake Linux 9.2 ISOs Publicly Released!]

[Robert Meyer]

An interesting point about this.  It seems that the gamers out there seem to
like the winmodems better than internal hardware modems or external modems.  It
seems that latency is better when using a winmodem 'cuz you aren't double
buffering everything.  Remember that the modem does compression/decompression,
along with the encoding and decoding of the actual signal.  With the speed of
modern processors, the CPU eaten by the winmodem seems to be trivial.

Having said that, I still prefer hardware modems...

Cheers!

Bob
--- Erek Dyskant <erek at nbtsc.org> wrote:
> Ken,
> 	Probably not.  Even if it was supported, I still wouldn't use a
> winmodem on a linux box.  You're much better off just spending the
> $20.00 and buying a used external serial modem.
> 	The problem is that winodems are basically sound cards tuned to
> the impedence of a phone line, so they use the driver to do all of the
> decoding.  This makes writing the driver much more difficult, and 
> also uses a lot more CPU time than a conventional modem.
> 	I have seen some cool linux answering machines for winmodems
> thoiugh, since they are quite easy to rig for use as a phone-line sound
> card.
> 	
> 
> Regards,
> Erek
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 02:33:02PM -0800, Kenneth Lawson wrote:
> > 
> > Hello Everyone;
> >  Dose anyone know if Mandrake 9.2 will have better support for
> > winmodems. Thets been my bigest problem. I finelly got it to see my
> > modem on my Xp machine, but could never get it to use it.
> > 
> > 
> >    Ken 
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