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Physically impossible? My 56k modem just connected at "115.2 Kbps"

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darqice

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No bull. I'd been having trouble connecting to AT&T worldnet dial-up ever since moving out to Porland, OR a few days ago (connecting @ around 28.8 Kbps). I finally try the online chat help with a CSR who informs me they were aware of problems with the access number and that it had just been corrected. He also gives me a init string to try: "AT&F1". I rebooted and redialed and voila: that little yellow popup in XP shows near the taskbar: connected at 115.2 Kbs. Freaky. Is this even possible? I thought analog modems were restricted to somewhere around 53.0 Kbps download speeds. Anyone? (wish my cyberwings hosted site was still up so I could post screenshots)

-darqice
 
The 115,200 bps speed is the data rate between the modem and the serial
port (though, in an internal modem, the serial port is on the modem
card.) Your actual data rate connection with the other modem is 50,666
bps.
 
internal modem. heh its probably connecting even less than 50,666. Just really odd that its reporting (for the first time ever) at such a high speed. A winXP bug maybe? Any tests to determine what its actually connecting at?
 
really just speed tests like www.dslreports.com, but I've found from experience that if you disconnect and reconnect, many times it reports the correct speed....it must be a bug, but its not unique to winxp. I had it on win9x as well.
 
I used to have AT&T dialup at home and the same thing would happen. Still downloaded as slow, so I figured the numbers were just messed up. Was using win98.
 
It some kind of driver glitch or Windows not properly recognizing the modem. It's been something that's existed since Win95. At one time, it was common for modem tweaking guides to recommend it, but in actuality it makes no difference.
 
Your modem init string is causing Windows to display the modem to COM connection rate rather than the real data connection rate.

The correct init string should be AT&FW1.
 
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