So if you bogged your system in any way while doing anything online, you’d DC in a heartbeat.
Additionally, the software part was buggy and prone to getting tainted beyond repair.
Driver updates also often borked everything.
And replacing the modem was only 50/50 going to fix your issues with it, so until the internet developed a driver cleaner tool specifically for the USR Softmodem, you often had to reinstall Windows to actually fix the issues.
Was that the modem that used “spare CPU cycles” as its processor?
Because that was hot garbage.
Yep, software modem.
So if you bogged your system in any way while doing anything online, you’d DC in a heartbeat.
Additionally, the software part was buggy and prone to getting tainted beyond repair.
Driver updates also often borked everything.
And replacing the modem was only 50/50 going to fix your issues with it, so until the internet developed a driver cleaner tool specifically for the USR Softmodem, you often had to reinstall Windows to actually fix the issues.
I remember launching Netscape Navigator Gold was PAINFULLY slow with a software modem.