Gidday Tim
On 18-Jan-01, you wrote:
> Hi Patrick, on Thu, 18 Jan 2001 17:00:33 +1300 you wrote:
>> While we're on this, why does my 56k modem sometimes show 44000 and
>> sometimes 45333? Is this just what they negotiate depending on
>> conditions, or can I have soem control over it?
> Yes, this is just the value that got negotiated according to the line
> conditions at the time. There's not likely to be much about you can do
> about it. There are often all sorts of things you can tweak but in the
> end that's a pretty reasonable/normal connection speed for a 56K modem so
> you probably won't manage to improve it much.
> In fact I understand that many ISPs set their dialup servers to prevent
> connections over about 48-50k anyway, because above that it's too
> unstable.
Igot the modem and Internet connaction at the same time. The modem had
faulty firmware and brokew down after two days. WHen I phoned the ISp
help desk they told me a command I should have in the modem init
string. Before I put it in, I went through the horrible PDF manual to
see what it was. It was to choke the modem back to 33.6. That pissed
me off a tiny bit.
> is why they put the max speed down a bit. I did the same thing when using
> this modem on a BT line - I tweaked the modem settings to force it to
> connect at 45k max, and then the line was much more stable.
After years of 14.4 and never missing one bit it came as a bit of a
disappointment to me to discover how flaky 56k is. One thing they
don't seem to like at all is sharing the line with other telephone
devices, especially cordless phones.
Regards
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