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TheMagician
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USA
Posted - 1/16/2001 5:42:59 PM  Show Profile  Email Poster  Edit Message  
This is my first USR modem, I've always used an LT winmodem, and never had any of these problems before. I am on Windows98. Any help would be greatly appreciated in advance.

These are the following modemchk stats if they could help solve such problems:

ATi6
U.S. Robotics 56K Voice INT Link Diagnostics...

Chars sent 153962 Chars Received 2208402
Chars lost 0
Octets sent 75413 Octets Received 2148094
Blocks sent 8314 Blocks Received 17734
Blocks resent 2

Retrains Requested 0 Retrains Granted 0
Line Reversals 0 Blers 382
Link Timeouts 0 Link Naks 1

Data Compression V42BIS 2048/32
Equalization Long
Fallback Enabled
Protocol LAPM
Speed 45333/28800
V.90 Peak Speed 48000
Last Call 00:16:04

Disconnect Reason is DTR dropped

OK

ati11U.S. Robotics 56K Voice INT Link Diagnostics...


Modulation V.90
Carrier Freq (Hz) None/1920
Symbol Rate 8000/3200
Trellis Code None/64S-4D
Nonlinear Encoding None/ON
Precoding None/ON
Shaping ON/ON
Preemphasis (-dB) 6/2
Recv/Xmit Level (-dBm) 17/13
Near Echo Loss (dB) 65534
Far Echo Loss (dB) 0
Carrier Offset (Hz) NONE
Round Trip Delay (msec) 7
Timing Offset (ppm) 5232
SNR (dB) 46.0
Speed Shifts Up/Down 0/2
Status : uu,5,12N,13.8,-15,0N,0,47.2,18.0
OK

ATY11
Freq Level (dB)

150 23
300 21
450 21
600 20
750 20
900 20
1050 20
1200 20
1350 21
1500 20
1650 21
1800 21
1950 21
2100 21
2250 21
2400 21
2550 21
2700 21
2850 21
3000 21
3150 22
3300 22
3450 23
3600 26
3750 31
OK

I used to connect at always 50,000kps or 52,000kps, now I connect at 48,000 or 49,333. This wouldn't be a problem if I could download at the speed I previously was able to download at (roughly 5.8kps). Now I can only get around 4.2kps. Not to mention I get disconnected very often. It seems that none of the init strings I've found have been able to solve my problem, nor have I been able to find a newer driver for this modem. All help and recomendations are appreciated.

Thanks,
TheMagician

romantik
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Posted - 1/17/2001 7:26:40 AM  Show Profile  Email Poster  Edit Message
Are you sure there were no other changes made to your computer?!? If not, it sounds like maybe the hardware flow control is not quite as good as your software flow control was. I don't know if this will work, but try putting in AT&F2 to have your modem set to the software general settings. And if that doesn't work just set it back to AT&F1. Just a shot in the dark, but let me know if it works.
alonadel
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USA
Posted - 1/17/2001 8:15:37 AM  Show Profile  Email Poster  Edit Message
another thing that can help you in this case is to make sure the com port itself has been set to the proper speed. To do this go to device manager and change our com ports highest speed to 115200, this is a separate setting from your modems top speed. if the port your modem runs on is not listed then follow these steps.

Go to start, run , sysedit, Find win.ini scroll down till you find something like this:

COM1:=9600,n,8,1,x
COM2:=9600,n,8,1,x
COM3:=9600,n,8,1,x
COM4:=9600,n,8,1,x

Simply add another line with the com port that yours is on and make sure that instead of 9600, you use 115200. good luck.

TheMagician
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USA
Posted - 1/17/2001 12:46:35 PM  Show Profile  Email Poster  Edit Message  
romantik:

No changes that I could assertain were made to my computer, however this is a new computer; I had my LT
winmodem on my previous computer. I tried your string (AT&F2), and under the Advanced Connection Settings, it still said Hardware was in use, rather than software. From what I understand of the non winmodems, is that they are all hardware flow controlled. So I don't believe that I can change that in the first place, although I wish I could, I have more than enough system resources to handle that. If there is a definate way to change it to software I'd be very greatful to know how.

alonadel:

I made that change, but I haven't noticed an improvement of any sort...none that I can define.

Thanks for your current feedback, hopefully some one will know some way to resolve my problem, I appreciate all feedback.

Thanks,
TheMagician

v.Richard
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USA
Posted - 1/18/2001 11:16:22 AM  Show Profile  Email Poster  Edit Message  v.Richards Homepage
If you used to connect at 50.0k or 52.0k, you were connecting with K56Flex, not V.90;

Your 3Com modem diag info looks OK; it would seem to me that your issue involves your ISP - and that you may get better connect rates/throughput with a different ISP; or, if you want to stick with current ISP, go back to an LT modem --- however, nothing is guaranteed to stay the same beyond your end, so changes in telco or at ISP may affect connect rates/throughput of any modem.

Aloha,
Richard

TheMagician
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USA
Posted - 1/18/2001 5:18:51 PM  Show Profile  Email Poster  Edit Message  
I wish I could just say it was my ISP, but literally there was about a 5minute unplug/replug new machine into comp, and immediately I noticed these problems. I wish I could just plug my LT winmodem into this new comp, but there was a lightning incident and it's pretty much dead, or basically a real pain to use. Thanks though. My ISP is www.starnetusa.com, a very solid, very large ISP.
v.Richard
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USA
Posted - 1/21/2001 7:22:18 AM  Show Profile  Email Poster  Edit Message  v.Richards Homepage
When I say it is your ISP, I mean the combination of the modem you are using and the ISP you are using;
You can at least try dialing other ISP #s to see if that is correct - even if you do not plan to switch
www.808news.com/56k/trouble4.htm

Aloha,
Richard

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