Connection speed

[marvin431]

My dial up speed has dropped from 52.2 bps to 32 bps.this connection is so slow it is almost unusable.

Could it be a bad modum?

 

[EeyoreX]

could be a bad modem. It could be a bad connection. It could be bad phone lines. It could be a problem with some of your software. It could be bad weather. It could be a bad equipment at the ISP end. It could be a lot of things. There is no way for us to diagnose that problem with such vague information as "this connection is so slow".

\Dan

 

[marvin431]

so sorry Dan wont be askin any more questions. Btw I hit the enter button by accident. and then got busy at work.bye

 

[JK949]

Try your question in the networking forum. you might have more success there.
Dial up modem problems are very hard to answer. not many people who subscribe
to anandtech problably use them. one person i know does.
General hardware is another place. if you can give me any details about any changes
that you have made that would be helpful/ you might try uninstalling and reinstalling
the modem. can't hurt to try.

 

[mechBgon]

Welcome to the Forums marvin431 🙂 One possibility is that your telephone line is physically deteriorating. Squirrels like to chew on cables sometimes, for example. My dial-up got bad, then worse, then my whole phone line quit working, and I had to call the phone company and have them come out to fix it. That's a little risky, since if they did not find a problem on their side of the demark, they would have charged me $85 for the visit.

The symptom of the deteriorating phone line, in my case, was static on the phone line when using my telephone itself. Are you getting static?

It doesn't seem very likely that your modem is faulty, anyway. Evil maybe, but probably not faulty 😀 If you do want to try a new one, the basic Creative Labs model here is working well for me and I got one for my folks too. Hang in there 🙂