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"Karl D. Ficenc" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 5 Jul 1998 16:28:22 -0400
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I'm running a Motorola VoiceSurfr 56 modem on my Soyo 5EHM/K6-300 system
under W95 OSR 2.5.  With the K56Flex protocol, W95 always indicated what I
interpreted to be the modem connect speed, always 38,000 to 44,000 bps.
After I flashed to v.90, W95 now usually report a connect speed of 115,200
bps, which is what the maximum port speed is set to.  On only 3 of more than
100 connections since flashing up to v.90, W95 reported a connect speed of
48,000 bps.  I tend to believe this was accurate modem connection speed,
since Internet pages seem to load discernibly faster since going to v.90.
My questions are:  (1) why am I seeing two different connection speeds being
reported by W95, and (2) is there a way I can make W95 reliably indicate the
modem connect speed rather than the max port speed.

BTW, I can't complain about the reliability or connection performance of the
Motorola, but "pure" PnP modems (jumperless) like it can be a royal pain to
install and configure.  After finally eliminating conflicts between the
modem and my SB sound card (they were fighting over IRQ 5), my modem is
running on COM 3, IRQ 9 !?!

Thanks in advance, Karl Ficenc

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