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| Thread ID: 60436 | 2005-08-01 11:49:00 | Dial up connection speed | Peter M (852) | Press F1 |
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| 377364 | 2005-08-01 11:49:00 | Can anyone tell me what sort of things would make the dial up connection speed change? Sometimes it connects at 45Kbps sometimes 36Kbps and right now it is showing 26.4Kbps. Why does it keep changing and what is a usual speed? I have a 56k modem and run xp home. Outlook express & IE6. | Peter M (852) | ||
| 377365 | 2005-08-01 11:58:00 | most of the time its due to poor phone lines or poor connection (ie telecom problem somewhere along the line). sometimes (exspecially with winmodems) it can be your pc (a program hogging the pc to much). i sugeest checking your phone leads, jacks and phones first. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 377366 | 2005-08-01 14:05:00 | Thanks Tweak'e will do that. What is best way to check outside line? Do I just ask Telecom to check it or is there some thing I can do or run on the PC to check the line? | Peter M (852) | ||
| 377367 | 2005-08-01 19:54:00 | Peter Go ahead ask telecom to test your line its free and only takes a couple minutes. As tweak'e has already said mostly its caused by line conditions, some you can control, others you cannot. the ones you can control do you run a telephone extension cable to your modem do you have a fax or another telephone on the same line monitored sercurity alarms sky service ( on the same telephone line). |
beama (111) | ||
| 377368 | 2005-08-02 12:27:00 | That just about covers it & is the same advice Xtra gives.Dial up performs within fixed parameters but there are many variables affecting speed.Spyware is a major speed influence,virus' & even cookies have an effect.Distance from the exchange & all those factors mentioned above too,but if performance is variable then the slow- down is induced.A downoad manager/accelerator might help,tune the modem to the max(all sliders) and avoid peak traffic.Hyper trace=interesting! |
deodar (8226) | ||
| 377369 | 2005-08-02 12:33:00 | Thanks for the suggestions. Simple answer is no I don't have alarms, sky, extension leads etc. So I will start with getting Telecom to check the line. Then work from there. | Peter M (852) | ||
| 377370 | 2005-08-02 13:09:00 | One other possibility - check that your modem driver is up to date. (Control panel-phone and modem options-modems-properties-drivers-update. This boosted my speed from 31kb to a regular 48kb. | huru (8639) | ||
| 377371 | 2005-08-02 17:47:00 | One other possibility - check that your modem driver is up to date. (Control panel-phone and modem options-modems-properties-drivers-update. This boosted my speed from 31kb to a regular 48kb. Nice to see member contributing their first post on helping people... |
Renmoo (66) | ||
| 377372 | 2005-08-02 20:54:00 | Hi Peter, I posted a thread on this subject a couple of weeks ago. Not sure who you're with, I'm through Paradise. For the last month I've been having problems with varying connection speeds, the highest being 33.6, the lowest 12.4kbps. Until something happened about four weeks ago, I was getting 50-odd kbps everytime. Now I'm finding I need to connect/disconnect a couple of times just to get 33.6! I've spoken to Paradise who's solution was to make a change to my set-up to permanently reduce the connection speed to make it more stable.....this didn't wash with me, it's been stable for years at 50kbps! So whilst I don't have an answer, I empathise with your cause. If you have any success in fixing this please let me know. I'm going back to Paradise again when I can find some time. If they can convince me the problem is not at their end, next step is to take PC to the shop for a look-over. Cheers Tim |
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