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Modem slowness
Author:	J.B. Bryant
Date:	Thursday, 3rd Jan 2002 14:43
Views:	2,515 (excluding Digests and RSS feeds)
Category:	Computers and Software
URL:	http://www.freepint.com/go/b14823
This has been a longlived problem (several years), but I've been too busy to try to tackle it. I have a 56K modem. I live 8 miles from the nearest telephone hub. I live in a nice suburb town outside Columbus, OH. I usually connect at about 21K (24K is as high as I've ever seen). I have a good modem (USRobotics Sportster) and I use my high-tech employer as my ISP. Others get good speed through work. My next-door neighbors connect to their commercial ISPs at 40K-ish speeds. I've spoken to the phone company, but they say they won't even get involved if I connect at 19.9K or better. I've traced the phone lines in my home to see if I could see anything that could cause me problems. I also connected a different computer -- my laptop -- to both the phone jack I use for my desktop (which I installed myself so though it might be suspect) and also several other professionally-installed jacks in the home. Same results. My home is only 12 years old, so it should be fairly modern. The only thing I can see is that the phone lines in the home all run through my security system box in the basement before going out to the phone company's outside box. Could that cause me a problem? If so, why? Is there anything I can do about it? By the way, I don't use the security system, so I'd actually be willing to disconnect it if necessary. Otherwise, what else could cause me to get such drastically different results than my next-door neighbors? Thanks, jb

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Topic	Author	Date	ID
Modem slowness This has been a longlived problem (several years), but I've been too busy to try to tackle it. I have a ...	J.B. Bryant	03/01/02 14:43	14823
Re: Modem slowness "Noisy" lines slow down modem speed. Most telephone companies have a software fix for this these days. When was the ...	Marc Arenstein	04/01/02 06:04	14832
Re: Modem slowness Marc: Thanks for the reply. I'm cheap, so I only have a single phone line in the home. It's the same ...	J.B. Bryant	04/01/02 12:17	14837
Re: Modem slowness I also looked at the article and agree that it's a little out of date these days - V90 and ...	Stuart Cliffe	03/01/02 22:21	14829
Re: Modem slowness Stuart Cliffe wrote: > > I also looked at the article and agree that it's a little out > of date these ...	J.B. Bryant	04/01/02 12:29	14838
Re: Modem slowness Hi You could take a look at the article entitled "How to select and optimise your PC Internet modem" which appeared ...	William Hann	03/01/02 14:57	14824
Re: Modem slowness William: Thanks for the reply. However, that article didn't go into much non-stanrd things (though in 1998 when it was written ...	J.B. Bryant	03/01/02 19:59	14828

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