make sure the phone lines and local exchange are ok
first............otherwise you will be swapping ISP's for nothing
if they use x2 and your modem is kflex or v90, you should still get 33.6 ,
56 k modems will perform worse than 28.8 or 33.6 if the line is not top
notch (that does not mean its a great line to talk on ! )
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On 16/12/99 at 8:12 Bruce Bauer wrote:
>The problem has to do with the 56k standards. Your ISP probably has
>older K56Flex modems while you are using and X2 or V.90 modem.
>Try calling your ISP and see if they have a different phone number for
>your type of modem. That's what it took for me with Earthlink.
>
>>
>> Short summary: nothing worked.
>>
>> Comments: the problem is with the ISP; for some reasons it connects at
>> lower speeds when I use 56k modem than with the 28,8k modem. I am not
>> sure how they know, probably, the tetragrammatone LAPM has something
>> to do with it.
>>
>> Retrains really slow down the connection badly (I get about 1kB/s
>> without retrains, down to 200 B/s if a retrain request occurs. Used
>> ati5 after disconnect to find out).
>>
>> The commands at&Un and at&Nn do not change the connect speed; the modem
>> simply hangs up if the speed proposed from the other end is not within
>> the limits. In my case, I never got CONNECT if I used any of these
>> commands (with any nonzero parameters).
>>
>> So I am out looking for a better ISP (not too many in Mexico D.F. AFAIK;
>> Prodigy maybe).
Regards
Greg Wright
IT Consultant Sydney Australia
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