Pathetic Speeds from an External Modem

[It_The_Cow]

A few days ago, I got an USR external faxmodem. My first test at dslreports got a score of 16/16. I updated the firmware to support v.92, and now I get about 9/9. My old scores with an ISA card was 35/16. The phone lines are only about 10 years old, so that can't be holding me back by much. I also used to connect around 46000, but now I have trouble trying to get past 36000. I also rarely download faster than 1kb/sec now

For now, I'll try to downgrade to v.90 and see if that's the problem

[su root]

Check your port settings... make sure the port (eg: LPT1) is set to 192000(or bigger), N, 8, 1

[It_The_Cow]

Did that. Scores seem better since I've changed the access numbers. My new score is 26/16. Still not as good as my ISA

[su root]

Well, I'm all out of ideas, unless it's something dumb like line noise, or crosstalk, (bad wiring of house). Also, if you are in the country, or rural areas, the full v90/v92 won't work properly because it switches analog/digital more than once.
You said earlier that you had a faster internal card, so that probably isn't the case.

The only other thing I can suggest is going into bios, and playing around with the options, try starting with that parallel port disabled in bios, and/or ECP, try disabling all the other parallel ports (so as LPT1 isn't sharing resources with another LPT port)