Modem doesn't connect at full speed?

[OlegB]

Dell just shipped me a PC with a built in modem. Its a USR 56k PCI. I tried signing on to AOL with it ad the max speed I got was around 27600. I connected my external USR and connected at 53333 like I'm used to. Is there anything i can adjust to get the modem to function properly? Or should I just harass Dell support?

[gjwilson]

I had a modem do that to me once. Dropped from 44 to 24 without warning. It turned out to be a lost driver problem.Instead of no modem at all my Win 98 had a default driver run it at a slower speed. Worth looking at.

[King_Kooba_Fantastique]

Also try tuning the registry files, could give you a performance boost.
www.regedit.com (http://www.regedit.com)

Good luck,
KKF.

[captpete]

This may seem obvious to you, but I don't know your level of expertise. Check the speed your modem is set at in Control Panel.

[Variable]

I had this problem a while back with my integrated Laptop modem! It was supposed to support up to 128K (at least in the self test) but I could only connect at 27000!
I couldn`t get it to connect faster (and I really tried everything).
And the most strange thing was when a friend of mine visited me with his Laptop he connected supposedly with 128000 to NEtzero on a single anolog phone line!!!!! That is -as far as I know- NOT POSSIBLE!!
I guess U can`t trust what this little thingy says!

[MiKe85]

I suggest asking Dell..Because if their is something wrong, they would probably have you ship the whole thing back to them and they'd send you a new one..(That's rare but it happens ...)

Mike

[OlegB]

I'll try th tips. Dell will get a phone cal if nothing works. Thanx.

[JayMan]

Also you might wanna try ringing AOL, i dunno bout over there, but here in australia when i was on AOL they helped with some modem initialisation string which ended up getting me connecting at 57600 90% of the time, the lowest i ever got with their init strings was about 53333 i think. Might be worth giving that a try.

JayMan

[JayMan]

I just re-read your post, i had a PCI modem which turned out to be a winmodem, this had lots of troubles connecting a high speeds with aol from my experience. Altho at the time my CPU wasn't real good, so that could be the reason (winmodem's use ya CPU to do stuff that would normally done in hardware, but that hardware was taken off to make it cheaper).
JayMan

[vass0922]

Umm call me crazy/retarded/ignorant but from what I've heard it really doesn't matter what you connect at. If you connect at 1400 ... FINE as long as you're actually downloading at a good speed.. that is what matters... the actual download speed.
The speed you see at first is only what the modem was able to initialize at. Some modems connect at 128000 but they download like a 3 toed sloth at 1.2k/sec ... others may connect at 28.8 and download just fine at 5.3 k/sec.

My point is, who cares what it connects at as long as it's downloading fine http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif
I don't know what you're currently downloading at... all I see in the posts are connect speeds.

[Variable]

Well yeah but what if it dl at 28.8?????