On 22/12/03 7:51 AM, "Peter Hinchliffe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 20/12/2003, at 5:55 PM, Vladimir James wrote: > >> Some may not be aware that other conditions besides ISPs may affect >> download efficiency. For example, ancient Telstra cabling in my >> district >> restricts my 56k connection to about 30k, often less. Clearly some of >> us >> are more fortunate than others. >> >> I'm waiting for some wag to tell me to move to another district :-) >> >> > > I'm wondering if this is entirely due to the Telstra network. A client > I visited last week has his son staying with him over the Christmas > period. The client's (slot-loading, MacOS 9) iMac has only ever > connected at 30k, despite all attempts to convince it to do otherwise. > His son needed to connect his barnd-new 15" Powerbook (US original > running Panther) to the Internet, so we took the modem cable from the > iMac, plugged it into his Powerbook, and got a 56k connection. Same > cables, same ISP, same time of day. So what Modem Initialisation string is the 30k Imac using ? Bob
