Worthless internet connection - Creative modem on XP

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I now have my Creative EXT modem connected to the XP computer. I
connected with no problems, am connected at 38.6.
I was able to read a few messages on this newsgroup. I ten opened
Seamonkey and went to Filehippo.com. I intended to check the download
speed of some random file. I chose Acdsee. I have waited 26 minuites
so far, just for the download page to load. Have not even gotten to the
actual download, and the data transfer has nearly come to a stop. I
cant even open messages on my newsreader at the same time.
While this EXT modem connects better than the internal one, the
connection is totally useless.
At 29 minutes, the download page on Filehippo timed out, and is dead.
This is the same **** I have gotten trying to use my Win2K install dual
booted on my Win98 machine, with same modem and phone line and ISP.
I think I'd be better off going back to sending Telegraphs, using the
Morse Code, than this ****!!!
I'll have to disconnect and reconnect to the internet just to send this
message! My newsreader shows no connection posssible, yet I am
connected.
I shut down, had to try 4 times to connect, shut modem off to reset it.
I now have a 42.6 connection. Lets see if I can send this messasge,

See if automatic updates are enabled. If so, disable them or switch it to "Notify, but
don't download or install."

Ben

On Fri, 14 Mar 2014 03:09:17 -0600, wrote:

I now have my Creative EXT modem connected to the XP computer. I
connected with no problems, am connected at 38.6.
I was able to read a few messages on this newsgroup. I ten opened
Seamonkey and went to Filehippo.com. I intended to check the download
speed of some random file. I chose Acdsee. I have waited 26 minuites
so far, just for the download page to load. Have not even gotten to the
actual download, and the data transfer has nearly come to a stop. I
cant even open messages on my newsreader at the same time.

While this EXT modem connects better than the internal one, the
connection is totally useless.

At 29 minutes, the download page on Filehippo timed out, and is dead.

I havent' read most of the thread and I don't know if this is helpful,
but when I had dialup and they were doing various other things to annoy
me, like not sending a bill by mail or email, cancelling my account, and
throwing away all my email that had not been downloaded yet, and then
claiming I told them I didnt want bills either by mail or email (when in
fact I would have chosen both if I could have) ....

And they kept telling me high speed would come to Baltimore soon (6
years later and it's still not here from them, plus the 4 years they
told me that. )

......when they were annoying me, they offered me a web download
accelerator. I figured it woudlnt' work but I had to try it or I
couldn't denounce it, but indeed it was a big help. I think it works
by not transmitting 1000 bytes of blue background, but instead 1 byte
and the number 1000.

Not every ISP has to have this. IIUC, they had a separate server that
sent out compressed webpages, and they gave me software to install that
de-compressed it.

This is the same **** I have gotten trying to use my Win2K install dual
booted on my Win98 machine, with same modem and phone line and ISP.


I think I'd be better off going back to sending Telegraphs, using the
Morse Code, than this ****!!!

I'll have to disconnect and reconnect to the internet just to send this
message! My newsreader shows no connection posssible, yet I am
connected.

I shut down, had to try 4 times to connect, shut modem off to reset it.
I now have a 42.6 connection. Lets see if I can send this messasge,

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On Fri, 14 Mar 2014 03:09:17 -0600, wrote:

I now have my Creative EXT modem connected to the XP computer. I
connected with no problems, am connected at 38.6.
I was able to read a few messages on this newsgroup. I ten opened
Seamonkey and went to Filehippo.com. I intended to check the download
speed of some random file. I chose Acdsee. I have waited 26 minuites
There are download speed checkers.
so far, just for the download page to load. Have not even gotten to the
actual download, and the data transfer has nearly come to a stop. I
cant even open messages on my newsreader at the same time.

When you say you can't open messages on your newsreader, is that a
newsreader that doesn't fetch bodies until you open them? If not (i. e.
it downloads them and holds them locally until you read them, expiring
them after a while), then the above may not be to do with your link
speed, but something else that is eating your CPU time.

Have you looked at the network graph in Task Manager (I assume you're
using some form of Windows)? If so, does that tell you anything useful?

While this EXT modem connects better than the internal one, the
connection is totally useless.

At 29 minutes, the download page on Filehippo timed out, and is dead.
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couldn't denounce it, but indeed it was a big help. I think it works
by not transmitting 1000 bytes of blue background, but instead 1 byte
and the number 1000.
Yes, that's how most compressors work (at least, one of the ways).

Not every ISP has to have this. IIUC, they had a separate server that
sent out compressed webpages, and they gave me software to install that
de-compressed it.

There is at least some compression built into the MoDem communication
standards - V42 or something like that. Obviously it is possible to do
more than can just be done inside a MoDem.
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