This, too, should agree with specs. Check that out before it is too late. Plug and Play, often, means Plug and Pray, and if you are reading this today, on a Sunday, you can still exchange the software for something else. Have a good holiday. Now let's pick up a few hardware details where we left off last week.
Modems are next on our list of priorities.
Modems, which started out designed solely to talk to other computers, also are set up specifically as answering machines and fax machines in the typical bundle. The Internet wrecks this scenario. Once you start using it regularly, you tend to hang online for hours at a time, particularly if you're paying a flat fee per month. At which point, since there's no such thing as a two-line modem, your computer's phone and answering machine and fax are disabled. Worth thinking about before you go to a lot of trouble setting up voice-mail boxes for the answering machine or typing in lists of phone numbers for the phone function.