Modem Noise!

[brandon184]

Can anyone help me out here? My friend says she has a HSP56 Micro Modem, and whenever she dials up to anything, even at lowest modem speaker sound setting in control panel, the dialup is heard throughout the hosue.. Does anyone have any idea how she could switch the speaker of the modem off completely, or a way to make it quieter than it already is.

[LJJones]

Plug a 3.5mm Jack Plug into the speaker output, that should make it go silent. The 3.5mm Juck plug could be a pair of earphones etc etc, anything which has this size connector on it. You could even get a 3.5mm to 3.5mm lead, plug one end into the modem, the other into the soundcard's line-in and you could set the volume through the audio mixer utility in the system tray. Listening to the modem sounds is always usefull because you know if its engaged or if something gone wrong somewhere so you dont wait ages for it to say that "you cannot conmnect" or something.

Jack.

[Chainsaw]

Brandon184,
I quieted mine down with the use of an initilization string.
The following AT command may also work for the HSP56, it might be worth a try.

AT&FL0&C1

Good luck,
c:::CHNsaw

~edit~
My Computer>Dial-Up Networking>
then Right click on your Connection>
Click on Properties>Configure>Connection>Advanced...
then you can cut the string from here and paste it into the "Extra settings" window.

(I doubt that it will work with the modem you mention, but if it doesn't, just delet the string and you're back to square one.)


[This message has been edited by Chainsaw (edited 05-13-2000).]

[codybear]

or just tape a cotton ball over the speaker...hey it worked on an old modem of mine

[Win_98]

I don't think HSP micromodem have any speaker built in.
IF you turn down the volume on ya control panel it should be much quieter.
BTW: HSP modem make your computer very slow
I suggest disabling it and add a PCI DSI
modem instead that is little software and mostly hardware driven.

Losing a speed of 133mhz for these modem
is a great loss.
Do this, benchmark sisoft with sisoft before connected then benchmark again after connected, you will see a big decrease in number.
I played Age of empire II and it was crawling like turtle, was using cyrix MII 333mhz so it reduced to like 166mhz
at time these modem connect at 14Kbps instead! and other time 28Kbps.
Then it refuse to work anymore.
I am glad I pay for a pci modem about 20 buck
onboard modem are the obsolute worst.
I took it out and threw it in the trash can.
Haha I was so happy afterward, everything else worked wonderfully.
Modem I recommend, Digicom 56K PCI
look for system requirement of say 100mhz-133mhz for best performance.

[Buji]

M0 (0=zero) in the extra settings in "Modem Properties".

[AuraEdge]

M0 or ATM=0 usually works (one or the other, not both)

[rtyp3]

Hey, all I did was goto control panel, modems, properties, and turn speaker volume off. Then you have to make the dial up connection again for it to be active. That shuts off all noise and is fairly simple. REMEMBER: make the connection again. If you use an already created connection it will keep the noise settings for when you made that connection.

[Win_98]

i say this again
these modem have no speaker!!
turn down the sound on your volume control panel or turn off speaker volume

[papalazer]

If you happen to have access to view your
modem card try dailing a number and see if
the sound is coming from internal speaker or
external speakers. Or try a listen after
dailup to the modem card, if you got the kind
that has a round componet in it put finger
over it if sound reduces replace with cotton
or tape. Now for internal speaker for powerup
beeps or whistles you could take plug off of
motherboard. If outside speakers then try
audio panel controls. These tests were made
with cover off computer.Replace when done.
Hopes this helps in some way.