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Posted: 12/23/2001 7:16:01 AM EDT
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I did this with my USR Courier a while back, basically you are seeing your port speed, not your connect speed.. I used the 3COM drivers instead of windows 3COM drivers it switched back to normal.
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Posted: 12/23/2001 7:35:56 AM EDT
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Quoted: This is wierd. I just fired up the laptop with a new PCMCIA V92 modem using an earthlink dial up account. For about the first 12 hours every time I logged on it came up with a connection speed of 115 KPS. I thought that perhaps this was some software glitch until I started surfing. It Smoked!! I mean web pages were just flipping up like they came off of my hard drive. Almost zero wait. I'd compare it to my T1 at work. I updated the drivers to XP and now I'm back to 49K. I tried uninstalling the drivers to the old ones but no avail. still 50K or under. Does anyone have any Idea how I got those 115KPS speeds? I want them back! I beleive 115k is the rate at which your comport is locked, or the maximum data throughput on that com port. Ian |
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Posted: 12/23/2001 7:42:51 AM EDT
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Yup, I've seen that before too. I'll bet it was incorrectly measuring the com port instead of the modem speed. The instances that I'm familiar with was when I used modem drivers that didn't exactly fit the modem I was working with. When I went to various speedtest web sites on the internet, I was still in the standard 40-51kilobit range and my downloads of files on the internet were still in the 3-5 kilobyte range as a 56k modem would be. Once I finally found the correct drivers, then the "115k" measurement became and changed to my online connection speed.
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Posted: 12/23/2001 8:54:56 AM EDT
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Go here to test your true speed: [url]http://www.dslreports.com/stest?loc=1[/url]
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Posted: 12/23/2001 9:15:01 AM EDT
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Thanks guys. I kind of figured that it was reading the max port speed. What has me baffeled is that the modem just smoked. It was dramatically faster than it is normally. I messed around going to some known slow sites (i.e. Brownells) and these pages came up in a blink. Even this site was clicking open like it coming off of my hard drive.
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Posted: 12/23/2001 9:24:22 AM EDT
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Consider yourself lucky. I'm in west St. Louis county, and my AOL will only load at 21.6kbps, even with my 56K Creative ModemBlaster. The test mentioned above said I was going 17 up and 16 down. ACK!I made the mistake of "upgrading" to WindozeME on my dos partition, and since my Win98 CD was also an "upgrade", and doesn't recognize WinME, I can't go back. I cannot WAIT until they have me out here installing broadband cable, so I can have a digital modem, dump Windoze, and just stick with Linux.
By the way, if anyone knows of a hack for AOL through Linux, let me know. I HATE AOL, but for reasons beyond my control, it is the only service I am able to currently use, until I get a cablemodem. I was at the Black and Decker website, and it was averaging 2 minutes a page to load. Some took as long as 6 minutes. SHOOT ME, PLEASE!!! |
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