Rating: 
Summary: Reliable, at least
Review: The Creative Labs V9.2 is a good value. Pop it in and it works dependably out of the box the first time and every time. I couldn't say that about a more expensive type. If you want to go on line without an installation hassle, this is your modem. My Win XP recognized and installed it at power up, a second later I was on line with AOL for the first time. Simply, dependably.
Rating: 
Summary: Installed First Time with Win2K
Review: This Creative ModemBlaster V.92 Modem installed first time and automatically with Win2K. When I booted the system, it came up as already installed! No need to go through the driver installation procedure. It consistently gets 48kbps for downloads and I see bursts of 100 - 150kbps for web site pages.I noticed that Win2K was using one of its generic drivers to run the modem and thought, "Let's upgrade to the latest driver from Creative Labs." Well, that turned out to be a mistake. After installing the driver, the system restarted and then locked up in the Windows 2000 startup screen. I had to restart again, press F8, and then pick last known good configuration to restart the computer. Win2K restarted with the old generic driver and everything is working fine again. I bought this modem after returning the Best Products equivalent product because Win2K didn't recognize it after several attempts to get it installed, to no avail.
Rating: 
Summary: The worst modem I ever have
Review: This is the worst modem I ever have, I will give it 0 if I can. 1. The driver totally doesn't work on Win2K, simply didn't dial (query modem looks fine) and froze the machine.
2. Incredible unstable connection, on Win98, 80% chance you got 14.4Kb with this so called "V.92"! My phone line is perfect, my laptop and my old ISA modem all get 50K+ consistently.
3. No manual, no support.
Don't touch this garbage. I get a $15 no name modem and works perfectly.
Rating: 
Summary: This modem rocks!
Review: This modem is great! It always connects at top speeds (for my area around 53Kbps.) My network throughput monitor shows some file transfers at 58Kbps and above! I have never had a disconnect when someone picked up the phone and it maintains mostly consistent transfer speeds when someone does.
As for video conferencing, the refresh rate of the streaming images is pretty amazing. I've been able to use this modem for most DOS applications through Windows with no conflicts from the software drivers needed to use this modem. Overall, I have to say that this modem deserves all 5 stars!
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