Re: Modem speed

I have a question that's off-topic for this thread, but what could I have
done wrong that my post to the thread (that you just replied to) isn't
showing for me in the list of posts in this thread?

HarryS

"R.L. Horn" <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 11:59:07 -0600, HarryS <hsom-spam-@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I ran a temporary line from the box on the side of the house directly to
the problem computer. When I connected the temporary line on the
outside,
I disconnected the existing line into the house before connecting the
temp
line so that the only line is the temp line. I connected 4 times and got
speeds of 31.2, 28.8, 31.2, 28.8. That's basically what I was getting
before on either modem. So, I guess that leaves me with something wrong
in the computer or two modems that both have a problem?

Not necessarily. It could be that the "problem" modems are more honest.

I live in a rural area where dialup is pretty much the only terrestrial
game
going, and I'm about ten miles from the nearest digital trunk. My
Couriers
only rarely succeed in negotiating V.90 connections, and when they do they
quickly downshift to something in the 30 kbps neighborhood (typically
before
ppp negotiation can successfully proceed). In contrast, I've seen
neighbors' cheapo winmodems consistently report 50 kbps+. Either way, the
actual throughput for incompressible data ends up being about the same (3
kiB/s and change).


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