helping a neighbour!

Hi to all. My Elderly neighbour had a 3 year old computer with Win 98 O/S he has just won a Win 2000 Prof O/S from his computer club! As a favour (I am NOT in the business!) I installed it for him and everything went very smooth until I tried to get him online!
He has a COMSTAR ESSPCI 56k modem and his server said it is not compatible with Win 2000 Prof!
Please is there anything I can do for him without him having to buy a new modem? Thank you. norman

 

I'm afraid you may be out of luck. That's a Winmodem. Garbage IMHO. It isn't compatable with Win2000. Be sure to get a hardware based modem not a software based one like Winmodems. If you care about the nuts & bolts of Winmodems see here. A new modem may run $40-$50 here in the US & knowing how bad the exchange rate is right now I feel for your neighbor. Be specific when purchasing the modem. Don't buy "controlless" modems. I never understood why they thought that phrase was some kind of bragging point.

 

To flyeater. Thanks for the reply, I will never forget what you said: "Don't buy junk for your computer!" I will tell all my friends that when they need something for their friend "the computer" buy a good one! Thanks again. Norman


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