| Although they are rarely still used for internet connections, fax modems are still widely in use for sending and receiving faxes and for connecting to older legacy applications such as connecting to outside systems, credit card processing, data exchange. We recommend purchasing a 56Kbps hardware modem. Several years ago, manufacturers created a fax modem called a Winmodem that switched part of the fax modem processing to the computer, which allowed them to quickly drop the price of new modems, but made computer performance suffer. If you are using a business-critical application, we recommend purchasing a hardware-only modem. |
