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Different Modem, still not connecting well in XP
I've now connected a USR Sportster to my XP computer. It works better
than the old modem (Creative), but it's still much slower than ANY modem connected to Win98. In Win98, I normally connect at 42 to 48kbs (with a 56K modem). (Except when the ISP is bogged down during peak usage hours). Using this Sportster modem, I am at least staying connected, rather than getting the "spiral of death" after a couple minutes. But, the fastest connection I have gotten with thsi modem is 36kbs (which is what I have NOW). After numerous reconnects, I am usually getting 24 to 30kbs. And I have tried several downloads, in which I'm only getting an average maximum of about 2kbs. This has caused most downloads to just give up and quit halfway thru. Although I did mamage to download an 11 meg file, but it took hours. Yet I just tried to DL a 1.8 meg file and it refused to go past about .9 megs. I tried 3 times, then gave up. On Win98, I normally DL from 4kbs and up to as fast as about 7kbs. Another thing, when I click on the dialer in Win98, it pops up and I can dial immediately. On XP, the dialer box appears, but it takes about one full minute before I can click DIAL. Until then, I just see the hourglass cursor. I dont understand that either..... I did download a manual for this modem, but it really dont offer much as far as settings, and was made for Win95, so it's not helping much in XP. It also does not say how to set the 8 switches on the back of the modem. I left them as they were set, which is 3 + 8 down, all others are up. Modem is a USR Sportster model 005686-02. I do have the proper driver for it. I did remove the old driver I had installed for that Creative modem. Any suggestions? Anyone know how those switches should be set? Thanks |
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Different Modem, still not connecting well in XP
On Wed, 23 Apr 2014 09:26:05 -0400, Paul wrote:
wrote: I've now connected a USR Sportster to my XP computer. It works better than the old modem (Creative), but it's still much slower than ANY modem connected to Win98. In Win98, I normally connect at 42 to 48kbs (with a 56K modem). (Except when the ISP is bogged down during peak usage hours). Using this Sportster modem, I am at least staying connected, rather than getting the "spiral of death" after a couple minutes. But, the fastest connection I have gotten with thsi modem is 36kbs (which is what I have NOW). After numerous reconnects, I am usually getting 24 to 30kbs. And I have tried several downloads, in which I'm only getting an average maximum of about 2kbs. This has caused most downloads to just give up and quit halfway thru. Although I did mamage to download an 11 meg file, but it took hours. Yet I just tried to DL a 1.8 meg file and it refused to go past about .9 megs. I tried 3 times, then gave up. On Win98, I normally DL from 4kbs and up to as fast as about 7kbs. Another thing, when I click on the dialer in Win98, it pops up and I can dial immediately. On XP, the dialer box appears, but it takes about one full minute before I can click DIAL. Until then, I just see the hourglass cursor. I dont understand that either..... I did download a manual for this modem, but it really dont offer much as far as settings, and was made for Win95, so it's not helping much in XP. It also does not say how to set the 8 switches on the back of the modem. I left them as they were set, which is 3 + 8 down, all others are up. Modem is a USR Sportster model 005686-02. I do have the proper driver for it. I did remove the old driver I had installed for that Creative modem. Any suggestions? Anyone know how those switches should be set? Thanks The bottom of the unit, should have a table explaining each switch setting. But it does not list the default. The CD that came in mine, has TECREF56.PDF and it has switch settings in it. I have a different model than you, but you can compare these to yours. The switches are not noteworthy, in terms of performance, so it's not like flipping the switches will perform a miracle. ******* page 20 TECREF56.PDf ******* Note: If a DIP switch is on, it is down. If a DIP switch is off, it is up. Factory Switch Setting Function 1 OFF Data Terminal Ready (DTR) Override OFF Normal DTR operations: computer must provide DTR signal for the modem to accept commands; dropping DTR terminates a call ON Modem ignores DTR (Override) 2 OFF Verbal/Numeric Result Codes OFF Verbal (word) results ON Numeric results 3 ON Result Code Display OFF Suppresses result codes ON Enables result codes 4 OFF Command Mode Local Echo Suppression OFF Displays keyboard commands ON Suppresses echo 5 ON Auto Answer Suppression OFF Modem answers on first ring, or higher if specified in NVRAM ON Disables auto answer 6 OFF Carrier Detect (CD) Override OFF Modem sends CD signal when it connects with another modem, drops CD on disconnect ON CD always ON (Override) 7 OFF Power-on and ATZ Reset Software Defaults OFF Loads Y0-Y4 configuration from user-defined nonvolatile memory (NVRAM) ON Loads &F0 Generic template from read only memory (ROM) 8 ON AT Command Set Recognition OFF Disables command recognition (Dumb Mode) ON Enables recognition (Smart mode) ******* end of page 20 TECREF45.PDf ******* I don't know if you've tried these. Some of these settings could affect the initialization string. (The USR is not a WinModem and has a datapump.) http://smallvoid.com/article/winnt-d...onnection.html I seem to have a 00568603.inf file, and it could be that it came from this page. The contents match the OEM3.inf file in my INF directory, which means that one was installed (some time ago). I thought I got that some other way, but that's what the breadcrumbs tell me today. http://support.usr.com/support/produ....asp?prod=5686 The datarate between the modem and computer has to be high enough, to takes bursts of decompressed data. And I think mine is likely running 115K. I don't remember exactly where that gets set, in the modem setup dialogs. Paul Paul, I got the switches set as (above), No real change (#5 was the only one changed). I have looked at the websites and saved the info to text tiles. I'll be trying sonme of the suggestions. But one question. How do I find what driver is installed for the modem? I dont remember if it asked me for a driver, or installed one from within XP? I already had all those drives as well as the ones for Win98 and Win2K in a folder called (USR drivers) Seems they are pretty universal for all USR modems (for each OS). I dont know if the one with the -03 at the end is ALSO for my modem which model is the one with -02 at the end. (all other numbers the same). Several articles I've read say that the drivers for Win2000 are different, but I'm dealing with XP, so that dont matter at the moment. I just cant remember where to locate the installed driver in XP..... |
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Different Modem, still not connecting well in XP
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Paul, I got the switches set as (above), No real change (#5 was the only one changed). I have looked at the websites and saved the info to text tiles. I'll be trying sonme of the suggestions. But one question. How do I find what driver is installed for the modem? I dont remember if it asked me for a driver, or installed one from within XP? I already had all those drives as well as the ones for Win98 and Win2K in a folder called (USR drivers) Seems they are pretty universal for all USR modems (for each OS). I dont know if the one with the -03 at the end is ALSO for my modem which model is the one with -02 at the end. (all other numbers the same). Several articles I've read say that the drivers for Win2000 are different, but I'm dealing with XP, so that dont matter at the moment. I just cant remember where to locate the installed driver in XP..... In WinXP, there is an INF folder with files in it. The "named" ones were put there when Windows was installed. Things like "mdmusrsp.inf". When you see one such as "OEM23.inf", the file is renamed by Windows before being put into that folder. That is to prevent name collisions. In my case, I knew the modem was 5686 and searched on that string (did a text contents search against the entire INF folder). I got a hit on OEM3.inf, as it has the 5686 model number in it. And the file contents, match that web site I quoted. If you use Device Manager, it reports the files that the INF requested to be used. My modem uses "Modem.sys" and "RootMdm.sys", which are relatively generic files as far as I know. But the OEM3.inf has things like mapping strings for the Hayes AT commands. And so the INF file contains most of the magic in this case. This appears to be the file in use. And it probably didn't come on my WinXP CD, and I added it manually and just don't remember doing it. I remember some detail about an initial attempt failing, with a claim the modem was an older version or something. So I may have hunted this down using the web site. ftp://ftp.usr.com/usr/dl07/00568603.inf It's the same file as the OEM3.inf one (gets renamed after it is installed). If the OS has a configuration dialog, items like this in the INF tell the OS how to turn on the modem features (via the init string when dialing). Adding &K1 to the dialing string, would turn on some compression protocol on the link. HKR, Settings,Compression_Off,,"&K0" HKR, Settings,Compression_On,,"&K1" Paul |
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