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This little gum-pack-sized modem works just fine, although I wish Apple had put a modem internally in their MacBooks. I don't use dial-up much, but it's nice to have in the boondocks. I wish it were in black, since my MacBook is that color (I'm a cross-platform junkie).

This product was the easiest modem Ive ever set up just plug in and go works great

So far I haven't had a problem with it. It works fine, except my Internet is slightly slower, but that makes sense because the power has to flow through an external modem before reaching the computer. My advice: if you need a modem, get a computer with a built in one. If that isn't feasible, get one of these. There's not another solution that I know of.

This modem worked great out of the box (bag?). I took a chance that this cute little match to my new MacBook w/Intel processor would work well, as the reviews seemed to be 50/50. So far so good. Yes, some of us still have only slow dial-up. The MacBook processor is fast, so surfing is faster than on my G4 tower and its internal modem. Speaking of which, it would've been nice if an internal modem had come with MacBook or if the USB type had been half the price, but other than that, no complaints.

This modem seemed to make the dial up slower than ever, could not use it.