Connection Speed

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James H. Smith

I have a Lucent Win Modem which I believe is 56K. I am
using Earthlink Accelerator. My computer was connecting
at 115 Kbps, which I never understood, but it made me
happy. Right after I installed some Microsoft updates,
it went back to connecting at 53.3 Kbps. [Specific
updates: a)820291:Recommended Update (Windows XP), b)
Microsoft Modem Driver Released on April 18, 2003, c)
Security Update for Microsoft Data Access Components
(KB832483)]
Why doesn't it connect at 115 Kbps anymore?
 
It really never did. Connecting at 115Kbps is impossible with a dial-up modem.
Perhaps you merely got an erroneous connect speed notification or an
indication of 'port' speed. ..
 
James H. Smith said:
I have a Lucent Win Modem which I believe is 56K. I am
using Earthlink Accelerator. My computer was connecting
at 115 Kbps, which I never understood, but it made me
happy. Right after I installed some Microsoft updates,
it went back to connecting at 53.3 Kbps. [Specific
updates: a)820291:Recommended Update (Windows XP), b)
Microsoft Modem Driver Released on April 18, 2003, c)
Security Update for Microsoft Data Access Components
(KB832483)]
Why doesn't it connect at 115 Kbps anymore?
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Hi James,

Actually, the 115k speed (if I remember correctly) is the max speed
that the modem is transferring data back and forth from the
motherboard/bus. There is a setting in the Modem initialization that
changes how the modem reports connect speed. I don't remember
specifically which part of this is it, but I do remember that '&C1&D2'
(without the quotes) had always needed to go into my modem strings to
get the connect speed right.

Probably when you installed the EarthLink software it corrected this.

Fritz216
 
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