Recent content by arnaut

Thanks, Kwatt. I think the quality of your phone line, distance to phone company switch, etc. does play a big part. I'm in a rural area of Ontario, Canada and the connection speed has never been great, usually from 26 to 32, using PC card modems on a laptop, including Xircom, 3Com/Megahertz...

Thanks, Evermore. I still do not fully understand your suggestion that a modem connected at a higher speed does not necessarily have higher throughput -- although it does make sense that one need not necessarily follow the other. So what you are saying is that the winmodem may be...

Lord Evermore, you bring up a good point that the connection speed does not mean you will actually get fast throughput. I have tested using a number of Internet connection speedometers. McAfee has one that seems pretty good. They are useful at telling you the general state of traffic on the...

Thanks for the suggestion, skyking. I'm beginning to think I have a defective modem too. Everything is okay with the phone jacks, as far as I can tell. The modem diagnostic test is okay too, in Win XP. USR tech suggested I set a minimum connection speed in the advanced setting in control...

I recently upgraded to a US Robotics "Pro Modem" a controller-based PCI modem, from a USR winmodem and was shocked to see my my connection speed drop from 42.6 to 34.6. It seems that the winmodem, coupled to my P4 2.4, is outperforming the small on-board processor on the hardware modem. That's...