Dail-up question Didn't know where to post.

[DarkRaven24]

I have SBC yahoo dail-up and i connect at 26.4kb or 28.8kb. I was wondering if there was a way so that I can connect at 56Kb? Before I had this other ISP and my friend had it too and he connects at 42kb, why is that? Do I need a better modem or what? I tried his modem but it connected at 28.8kb so I was just wondering if any of you guys can help me out. Thanks alot. dsl or cable internet are not in my area if they were I would have one of them.

[mickwish]

It's probably your phone line, not the modem. Lots of variables in what dial speed you get I'm afraid. The main one is signal quality of the phone line itself. Sorry, but sounds like you need a new house that has a better phone line!! :P

If you have anything else plugged into the phone line (fax, 2nd phone) then try disconnecting it and see if it helps. Or, if you plug into the phone line with a long extension or via a phone, see if you can plug into the phone line directly with a short extension. I doubt it would help much if you can't get m,ore that 28kbps though.

Cheers
Mick

[DarkRaven24]

They recently put a whole new phone line. I have a long phone cable connected to a phone in my room and from there I have it to my pc. Do you think thats the problem?

[mickwish]

If it's a new phone line it may even be the issue, depending on what kind of phone cable they laid. Believe it or not, newer houses often have more trouble with phone line quality because they use different materials from the old thick copper phone cables. OK for voice (just), but degrading for data. :o

A long extension wouldn't be helping. I'd try and move the PC closer to tohe phone socket at least temporarliy to test whether that makes much difference. But, as I said, with the low signal you are getting, I doubt the extension is making that much difference, really.

Cheers
Mick

[DarkRaven24]

Okay well tomorrow I'm going to move my pc to the phone jack and try it out and I'll let you know what happens okay thanks for your help.

[madfish]

I don't remember how right now, been many moons, but you can optimize the dail up settings for your pc. best modem to have is an external one though.

[davidw]

try adding a , (comma) before the telephone number - it connects slightly slower, but your connection will be better, if that works, try 2 commas. We do this with some of our dial-up customers and it does good.

[Win2Kuser]

I presume the US phone system is similar to the UK phone system in which case you could also ask your phone company to increase the gain on your line, that sometimes makes a big difference especially if using extension leads...

[davidw]

Unfortunately US FCC regulations only allow for up to 56k. For more than that it would require an ISDN line or DSL (over phone).

[ThRoNkA]

Actually the limit is 53k due to line voltage requirements. 56k would require more voltage.

[davidw]

Under perfect conditions, a connection at most could reach 61k. You're referring to Part 68 regulation for 53.333333~

[Win2Kuser]

Some tests that were performed in the UK a number of years ago, found that a perfect line (at least in the UK) could sustain speeds of upto 200k. Unfortunately, UK regs limit the speed to ~52k but most lines in the UK won't sustain speeds above 45k anyway...

[ThRoNkA]

Under perfect conditions, a connection at most could reach 61k. You're referring to Part 68 regulation for 53.333333~

No CC. The increase in voltage and gain is needed BECAUSE if you didn't then the connection would produce cross talk.

[davidw]

No CC. The increase in voltage and gain is needed BECAUSE if you didn't then the connection would produce cross talk.So what part of my statement is untrue? The Part 68 regulation was for that. Read up on your FCC regs.

[davidw]

Also, in my first part, under perfect conditions considers no FCC regulations involved.

[Brenda]

I wish DarkRave24 would post back to let us know if moving the computer helped. :cuffed: