It's probably you're phone lines. The modem will try it's fastest speed first then keep falling back until it reaches a reliable data transfer rate.
You should probably try to get your local phone company to do something about the noisy lines, I don't hold out much hope that they'll do anything. At 04:41 AM 2/4/2002 -0800, you wrote: >Hi Gang .... > >Maybe someone can help me out (Yeah, I know - Which way did you come >in?) I just installed a 56K modem and the fastest connection speed I've >been able to get is about 45K. I've tried connecting to several phone >numbers, but 45K has been the upper limit Is there some way to adjust >modem settings on the computer to speed things up? I'm using Win95 on >this old beast. >-- >Shel Belinkoff >mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://home.earthlink.net/~belinkoff/ >- >This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, >go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to >visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .