56K modem is so slow!

[The Reverend XP]

There are many many things that can affect a modems speed.
Drivers being one small aspect. In many cases the problem
is usually poor lines. Any sort of stactic or interference
what so ever on a phone line can cause slow down. For that
you have to demand that your Internet provider come out to
your place and do a line check. Windmodems are really bad.
These are modems that rely upon software programs to run.
If you want consistent speeds at the best possible
throughput then you should get a controller based
(hardware) modem. One that has it's own chip and does not
rely upon XP. I used a US Robotics Performance Pro and had
consistent connect speeds of 50.6 with storage speeds of
5.7 which equates to a throughput of 47kbps and that is
well above %85 of the connect speed. If you want specific
help with your problem then let us know what modem you
have and then perhaps we could suggest initialization
strings to help you. Good luck.

[Unknown]

Not necessarily true. I had a winmodem on my Win95 computer and ALWAYS
connected at or above 48KB. On several instances I connected at 53KB. I now
have a hardware modem using WinXP and connection varies from 26 to 45KB.
Rarely get to 48.
"The Reverend XP" > wrote in message
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> There are many many things that can affect a modems speed.
> Drivers being one small aspect. In many cases the problem
> is usually poor lines. Any sort of stactic or interference
> what so ever on a phone line can cause slow down. For that
> you have to demand that your Internet provider come out to
> your place and do a line check. Windmodems are really bad.
> These are modems that rely upon software programs to run.
> If you want consistent speeds at the best possible
> throughput then you should get a controller based
> (hardware) modem. One that has it's own chip and does not
> rely upon XP. I used a US Robotics Performance Pro and had
> consistent connect speeds of 50.6 with storage speeds of
> 5.7 which equates to a throughput of 47kbps and that is
> well above %85 of the connect speed. If you want specific
> help with your problem then let us know what modem you
> have and then perhaps we could suggest initialization
> strings to help you. Good luck.