buying a high speed v everything modem just a quick summary of recent findings re high speed modems top three contenders seem to be at t paradyne zyxel and us robotics zyxel has the biggest cult following and can be had for under but i ignored it because i need something with mac software which will work without any tweaking the at t dataport earns nearly unanimous praises for reliability they are backordered at the moment probably because of the special price in effect until may its fax capabilities are worse than that of the other two modems warning at t ads say that the modem comes with a mac kit cables all and has lifetime warranty this applies only when you order directly from paradyne i called elektek one of the distributors and they wanted to charge me for cable and gave only year warranty usr sportster for the mac is also highly but not as highly recommended it s only from clubmac and if you are willing to roll your own cable and don t care about the faxstf software you can get the generic model from pc outlets for all this assuming that you don t have a rich uncle and can t afford a motorola codex i ended up ordering the dataport we ll see how it works in two weeks or so eric behr illinois state university mathematics department behr math ilstu edu or behr ilstu bitnet please avoid
