How can I dial up to the internet at a *slower* speed?

[Anthracks]

Because the phone lines in my house are absolute junk, I've been told by various Verizon technicians that they're unreliable at anything above 28.8 (yes I am still a poor sucker using a modem...). However, my 56k modem always wants to connect at the highest possible speeds, which makes my connection laughably unstable. It disconnects me constantly, or at best just pauses for minutes at a time. I don't think the issue is my ISP; if it is, the last 3 or so I've used have all had this problem.

Does anyone know a way to make myself connect at nothing greater than 28.8? In my modem's properties in control panel, there is a Maximum Speed option, however this does literally nothing; when I change it to like 9600 my modem still gleefully dials up at 44kbps. Is there any way around this, other than the obvious "get your phone line upgraded"?

Thanks,

Jon

 

[Adul]

Speed guide May have some info for you.

 

[Big Lar]

In reality, your actual Line quality will dictate the speed you DL, & UL, the #'s mean little to nothing in real world application. Just run the way you are now, and it should even itself out. I wouldn't use any enhancers for the modem tho, just run default settings.

 

[pm]

I had pretty much the exact same problem on my old USR Sportster 56k. For this modem, there were two control codes which I could add to the modem's configuration line which prevented it from running above 33.6k.

Unfortunately they are control register settings and I would imagine that these vary from manufacturer to manufacturer. I could look them up, but, since I use a cable modem and my old modem manual us buried somewhere and since I don't think it will be applicable to you, it's probably not worth the effort. Look in your modem documentation and look up the S register settings.

 

[MikeA]

I have the same problem, I found an init string for my USR modem that disabled V.90. Before this I would connect at 38.xxx and get unstable as hell connections, and disconects (like you are), after the init string I only connect at 28,800, my ping is lower but connection is much more stable. I just looked for "disable v90 init string" (or something like that) on yahoo...

 

[JeSpre]

I use this string for my Conexant HCF modem:

AT+MS=V90,0,,,44000,46667

Good for me because anything below I know it can connect comfortably at 44 and anything above 46 is unstable. That initialisation string will vary from modem to modem.

 

[goldboyd]

+ms=v34

 

[goldboyd]

also, you said the phone lines IN your house are absolute junk, why not just do some rewiring?