Optimizing a 14.4k internet connection??????

[buk]

OK guys (and gals) here is a real retro topic! I am so far in the boonies that I cannot connect any faster than 14.4k. Its not equipment, its my phone service. Currently have Diamond SupraExpress 56K external, also have USR 56k V.90 internal but not a lot of difference between them. I've read a number of tweak articles but I don't think they apply to me! Obviously, I'm not fast enough to take advantage of V.90 so would it make sense that I disable it with my init string? What else should I disable? Or should I leave everything alone assuming that my connection would default to the most optimum settings?

Y'all go ahead and flame me or ridicule me (all in fun) but I'm trying to get the most out of my 'limited' connection.

Thanks for any help you can give me.

[Rmcky]

buk, what makes you sure it's your phone line? If you pick up your phone and press any key besides 0, can you hear noise? The phone company should be able to at least get you up to 28k, even if you live 100 miles from the switching station. Biatch at them about it, even if you're on a rural utility. Beyond that, have you checked each and every connection in and outside your house? Connections can be bad enough to cause your problem and the outside box can be dirty as heck or even have dirt dobber nests or worse in them. Also, check it with no phones connected at all, sometimes a faulty phone can create problems of it own. Work on your lines a little before considering trying to castrate your modems. I think your modems are both good enough to correct whatever they have to work with to the optimum connection, but there may be other things you can do to help them out. Hope you get it better.
Rick

[jmatt]

Try this site .
http://www.geocities.com/thegorx/Windows/Help/Modem.htm

[Buji]

This will check out your line: http://www.3com.com/56k/need4_56k/linetest.html

[This message has been edited by Buji (edited 08-12-2000).]

[Richard_Cranium72]

I went to the geocitites site and did the modem tweak, upon reboot my isp's could not connect. Made by memory the original settings and back online, slower now, but back. DrVette

[neo_otyugh]

check with your public utilities commission and see what data speeds your phone provider is required to provide. i have a friend that lives in monaville, tx and has had numerous problems with his dial up. He has called the PUC on SWBell 6 times i think. He eve had an ISDN line installed and had slow connections. SWBell told him it was his modem, so he had a tech out there one time and told the guy to try it with a brand new modem...they still had slow connections...he tells the tech that it must be the modem...after a lot of headache he is not able to get full dual channel ISDN, but his dialup has never gone ofer 24,000