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Argonne
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Posted - 11/29/2001 9:22:11 PM  Show Profile  Email Poster  Edit Message  Argonnes Homepage
I have a 3COM 3C886 Officeconnect Modem/Router that I am real happy with. It dials the ISP and establishes a connection whenever an outbound packet is detected from the LAN, but the negotiation takes so long that the originating application always times out before the connection is established. I want to speed up the negotiation and get connected faster.

I connect very reliably (95% of the time) at 40000/ARQ/V90/LAPM/V42BIS, which is fine. It there an AT string that I could use to circumvent the negotiation and establish this connection faster? All I know about the modem in this thing is that it's a USR 56k V5.0.1 .

Bob Starnes
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Posted - 11/30/2001 1:19:38 PM  Show Profile  Email Poster  Edit Message
56K connection can take anywhere from 20-50 second to negotiate, no way around it. However you can either disable 56K and force a V.34 connection (10-20 second negotiation) or try limiting the modem's maximum connect speed to 40000bps.

See http://modemsite.com/56k/x2-linklimit.htm#3Com

And http://modemsite.com/56k/ms.htm

Might also see http://modemsite.com/56k/connectoid.htm

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