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[trapper]

I just got a new connection as i recentley moved house so prior to ghetting my software for my unmetered diallup i was using another isp on pay as you go, Thing is when i was on my pay as you go dialler i was getting speed of 115,000 bps (56k v90modem){average pci type)
now im on to my unmetered diallup its dropped to 31,200 bps
any possible fixes or is it a case of pay top dollar on p.as u.go better connect speed?:burn:

WELL i found this blurb and thought others might like to see it...............Bad news: the k56-flex standard does not support connection speeds of 119Kbps. In fact, it is no faster than V.90. The clue is in the name, you see - k56 = 56K. There is an analogue communications standard that can connect you to the Internet at 119Kbps but there are some severe restrictions on how far away you can be from your ISP. In fact, you have to be within five metres of its server and the name of that standard is the null modem cable.

What I am saying is that 119Kbps is just the speed of your serial port, not the speed of your modem......................learn something new every day
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[klosters64a]

I don't know why Win98 insists on telling you that your 56k modem is connected at 115kbps. AFAIK, 56k is never faster than 53kbps. Ever. So 56k should be called 53k.

It bites that your present dial-up maxes at ~31kbps. Changing dial-up ISP's isn't difficult, why not try all of them in your area until you find one that connects you at say...48kbps or better? With dial-up bandwidth as severely constricted as it is, every 1kbps counts!

[Jon]

Mine reported connection speeds like that when I was at home for a couple months before moving and getting broadband again. I had reformatted and it then showed I was at 56K speeds again. There was no difference in actual connection speed between either. Think it was just some sort of glitch or setting I had changed that caused it to report that.

Was on Win2K too...

[Malpine Walis]

You indicate that your change happened right after you moved. Which leads me to suspect that your telephone line may be involved. That is a big change to see. However, I have seen this happen before. I offer no guarantee that this is the case but here is what might have happened:

Standard phone service (POTS) is based on analog transmission. Your modem translates the digital signals in your comp to analog for transmission over a regular phone line. At the receiving end, another modem re-translates the analog signal into digital for the network you are connecting to.

Depending on where you live, your phone company may be in the process of upgrading to digital phone lines. This would mean that your signal is being converted to analog to transmit over a line that converts the signal to digital and then back to analog to send to the receiving modem which then converts the signal back to digital. The overhead for all of this can drop your modem speed by half!

If this is the case, what you need to do depends on who owns the digital equipment.

In the case I know of, the owner of the building owned the telephone switch and I took the internal analog wiring and bypassed it around the switch back to the regular copper phone lines coming into the building -- problem solved.

If your phone company owns the offending equipment, then you can try calling them to see what, if anything, they can/will do.

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And yes, you can get a 115KBPS throughput on a 56KBPS modem. That is the speed you get when both modems agree on a protocol which uses data compression.

If you send an already compressed file over such a connection, it will not go through any faster that the same uncompressed file. But since quite a bit of internet traffic is not compressed at the server (graphics for example), a 56KBPS modem can "fake" a higher speed.

[Jon]

I had broadband before I moved...I just used dialup in the interim. The speed differences were from the same line and same ISP...formatting caused the change from 115K back to 56K.

I do know what you are saying about the compression and I believe that's what I had fooled around with to get that speed report.

Ah well, back on broadband and shouldn't need to go back to it...

[trapper]

put a diamond supramax external usb on to get a consistant 49.333 so thatll do as i get a cable modem b4 2002:D