At 6:59 PM -0400 7/14/05, Claude Jones wrote: >I know the drill, and all the arguments. I can get a Trendnet external for >$29.95. It will plug in and just work. For me, $30 is not a big deal. But, >now I'm spec'ing a large job - it's going to be junkyard machines (don't >laugh - I'm only partly kidding) and lots of them. $30 for one machine is not >much, but $30/machine for one hundred machines could mean the difference >between this non-profit getting computerized or not. > >So - have mercy folks. Can someone identify specific winmodems that will work >with FC? I have spent the day looking at the linmodems site and doing other >research, but I thought this couldn't be a better place to ask... All the machines will be in separate locations and dial in to, uhh, what? I mean, are all those modems really necessary? If they are, who's goint to pay the phone bill? If not, ethernet cards are pretty cheap, and so are 10baseT switches. There may be better network topologies, but it only needs to be better than modems. ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>