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36653 2002-02-22 07:03:00 Does Anyone Get A Speed Faster Than 52 Kbs On A Dial Up Modem and is it Possible Guest (0)
36654 2002-02-22 10:11:00 Yes.

The fastest I've gotten is 53.3kbps.

I have not had that speed in a while but I have never had less than 50.6kbps apart from the time the CableTalk technician screwed up my phonelines.
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36655 2002-02-22 10:18:00 Hi KK.

I'm curious. Your 50.6bps that you mention, did you get that from the two little monitors bottom right, or some other means? Mine always says 50667bps, but is that whats actually going through?

Cheers.
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36656 2002-02-22 10:51:00 Hi

I am at 53333 now (shows when I hover the mouse over the flashing monitor icons in the system tray). It is usually 53333 or 52000, although I find it better at 52000, as 53333 seems to stall a bit.

I have had 31200 a few times (it seems to take forever between 'verifying user name' and 'connected' when I get a slow connection) and generally disconnect and reconnect when that happens.

I am with Paradise and never got faster than 48000 with Xtra.

J.
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36657 2002-02-22 11:34:00 Still going slow...I downloaded that program but there was no change...perhaps if it was registered it might make some difference as then I could use the fastest setting but I wont be doing that...guess thats what you get with skanky phone lines out in the country.....lol.... Guest (0)
36658 2002-02-22 22:06:00 If you're getting 52 there's no reason to complain, as the majority will seldom get more than about 48. It is in fact possible to get speeds of 400Kb/s and more, theoretically, because of data compression. I notice that a lot when I'm FTP'ing to or from a site, but it's usually only with text data or code, which are easily compressable. Guest (0)
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