Any experience using Airport Extreme for dial-up?

Hi,
I just purchased a MacBook, which I love already, but I'm a bit disappointed that they decided to drop the internal modem. Regardless, I'm trying to figure out the best way for me to connect to the internet now (I use dial-up). The $50 external modem seems okay, but the reviews/comments have been lukewarm at best.
Does anyone here use the Airport for dial-up connections? I've never tried doing the wireless thing with my dial-up ISP (which is ISPWest, btw), so I'm curious to see if it's worth doing, given that the connection is already slow to begin with.
Thanks!

Before I got DSL that was how I used my AEBS.
The internet speed (56Kbps) was just as fast as if I was directly connected to the phone line.
I did in fact share the phone connection wirelessly with three computers which was useful.
iFelix

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