USB Modem, Only One Light On

[Thmanx]

So i've got everything ready to go to enjoy my wifi Pi3 dialup experience... almost


I entered all the phone number and log-in information through Quake3's interface. But when it tries to connect after 8 seconds Q3 says there was no dial-tone.

I'm using one of the USB LVIs and the modem i bought was a full duplex version
http://www.ebay.com/itm/172147989345?_t ... EBIDX%3AIT


One thing to note, the 2nd light isn't on... so whats the hold up? Bad modem and better off with the Dell one?

[pcwzrd13]

Doesn't look like the modem is compatible. It appears to work with Windows only. The best one to get would be the Dell NW147 as it's the one most of us use.

[Thmanx]

Yeah figured it might of been a hardware compatibility issue.

lol SO CLOSE THOUGH! lol. I'll get this sorted out eventually.


btw, out of curiosity what is the performance like when using dial up over DreamPi. I'd imagine its about as good as you could ever get considering your not sharing a line with others. Does it run at effectively the 'theoretical max' of dialup?

[pcwzrd13]

btw, out of curiosity what is the performance like when using dial up over DreamPi. I'd imagine its about as good as you could ever get considering your not sharing a line with others. Does it run at effectively the 'theoretical max' of dialup?

You'll get the maximum upload speed of the modem which is 33.6Kbps. All the games were designed to run over dial-up so they work really well using slow connections. If you've never played an online multiplayer game over dial-up then you might think it would be awful but it really isn't. I've played games like PSO and Toy Racer over both dial-up and broadband and I can hardly tell the difference. The only game I use my broadband adapter for is Quake because of the requirement for quick reaction.

[nascar241993]

I've played PSOv2 with a network speed of 28.8Kbps (lol, never use the Viking DLE-200B unless it's absolutely necessary, like if you're running a Netopia setup) and it worked perfectly fine.

[Thmanx]

Ended up swinging by Frys and picked up a TRENDnet USB modem.

Plugged it in, 2 green lights. Was able to log into one of the Q3 servers that had some bots in it. So its official Thmanx is Online, one more added to the list