Loy
As you might suspect there are many reasons that you may have a slow line.
I have access to some slow phonelines as well. The best way I have found to
get the best speed possible on a dial up phone line is to use an External
Modem... A US Robotics External.

I had, in my older computer, only one type of internal modem that would
give me any speed at all and that was an older ISA slot type US Robotics
modem.

Any PCI modem I tried always had trouble.

Now days computers are NOT made with ISA slots only PCI slots. If you have
a good phoneline they seem to work OK. If not or if Windows is sluggish and
is having trouble so will the modem.

Apparently from what others have said, the internal PCI modems work with
one processor and uses its source for power for the second processor from
the operating system. The External modems being self contained, have two
processor and there own power source, etc.... seem to get better speed.
Down side seems to be nobody has any Sales on External modems as they do on
Internal modems.


I have tried the Conexant HFC modem at my friends house and he gets a good
49 plus connection. I my house usually about 21 plus. My external
USRobotics however is good at my friends house and gets me between 37 and
40 plus at my house.

Hope this helps

TTYL
Gordon



Loy Pressley wrote:
>
> Good morning,
>
> I have a Conexant HCF V90 56K RTAD Speakerphone PCI Modem in my
> computer, a Dell Dimension L800r with 512 megs of ram, running at 800
> MHz.  My operating system is WinME.  I have never been able to connect
> to my ISP at any speed greater than 28.8.  In fact, I cannot hear on
> the
> speaker that the modem is even attempting to negotiate a connection
> higher than 28.8.  Can I do anything that will increase the speed of
> the
> connection?
>
> The modem is on COM4. I have the maximum speed set at 115200, 8-N-1.
> The driver is comm.drv.  When I run the diagnostics I get:
>
> Command          Response
> ATI1                   265
> ATI2                   OK
> ATI3                   2.1.2.164.013.025
> ATI4                   Conexant HCF V.90 56K RTAD Speakerphone PCI Modem
> ATI5                   181
> ATI6                   DP Rev BA
>                          V90    SPX RAM Ver 05
>                          V90    CTL RAM Ver 05
>                          K56FLEX SPX RAM Ver 47
>                           K56FLEX CTL RAM Ver 47
> ATI7                   255
> AT+FCLASS=?    0.1.1.0.8.80
>
> Port                     COM4
> Interrupt               9
> Address                DFF0
> UART                    NS 16550AN
> Highest Speed:      115K Baud
>
> Identifier:  CXT\VEN_14F1&DEV_1036&SUBSYS_020913E
>
> I don't know what all of that means but it might help.
>
> Thanks...
>
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