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Hi All, this is my first post on Mac-Forums.
I've had my iMac G4 17" FP for since Sept, 2002. It been a great machine, but I must admit certain items in it have prematurely failed or worked intermittently.
The superdrive worked for maybe 4 months before being able to burn cd's only. Thats a long story. But my biggest problem (since I rely on dial up internet living in the country), is the internal modem.
The modem seems to work only intermittently, often giving me "No dial tone detected", or making various tones without out actually getting a line first. This is a different set of problems that that it gave me with 10.3.4. Prior to updating to 10.3.5, I would just get a continuous "disconnecting" message, and would have to reboot to connect each time.
If only the internal modem were easy to change. Because there is no broadband where I live, I am forced to buy an external modem, or junk my iMac for a new one.
I am thinking about getting an iMac G5 next year, but I am really hoping that Apple has elected to put a better modem in the G5, or that tiger will fix the issues.
Is anyone able to post what type of modems are in the new iMac g5's?
This is what is in my G4:
I've had my iMac G4 17" FP for since Sept, 2002. It been a great machine, but I must admit certain items in it have prematurely failed or worked intermittently.
The superdrive worked for maybe 4 months before being able to burn cd's only. Thats a long story. But my biggest problem (since I rely on dial up internet living in the country), is the internal modem.
The modem seems to work only intermittently, often giving me "No dial tone detected", or making various tones without out actually getting a line first. This is a different set of problems that that it gave me with 10.3.4. Prior to updating to 10.3.5, I would just get a continuous "disconnecting" message, and would have to reboot to connect each time.
If only the internal modem were easy to change. Because there is no broadband where I live, I am forced to buy an external modem, or junk my iMac for a new one.
I am thinking about getting an iMac G5 next year, but I am really hoping that Apple has elected to put a better modem in the G5, or that tiger will fix the issues.
Is anyone able to post what type of modems are in the new iMac g5's?
This is what is in my G4:
Modem Information:
Modem Model: Dash2
Firmware Version: APPLE VERSION 2.6.3
Country: 20 (Canada)
Driver: InternalUSBModem.kext (v2.6.3)
Interface Type: USB
SKU Name: UCJ
Modulation: V.92
Hardware Version: 1.0F