New Modem Slower Than Old One

Hi,
I used to have an AMBIENT MD5628D 56K V90. Modem installed which connected most of the time at 36600bps, sometimes at 49000bps, now I have installed a SUMVISION EM 56HAMi 56K V92. which is supposed to be a faster connection, but it only connects at 28800bps and thats it. Down loads seem to take longer and even stop. Is there any manual ajustments I can do to change this and can any one explain why this one is slower.
Thanks for any help.

Neil.............

 

It could be slower because your ISP doesn't support V.92 so the modem defaults to V.34
BTW, both modems are seriously cheap winmodems, and I really don't know why you would replace one winmodem with another even cheaper.

 

Thanks for the reply reboot,
The answer to that is, I know very little about modems, I took one to be much like another. Any advice on a good modem is welcome.

Neil...........

 

The absolute best modem you can buy, is just about any external serial (NOT USB!).
Next to that, any internal HARD modem, not "winmodem" or "softmodem ".
If it says on the box, "Requires Windows ", then you don't want it.
The USR 2977 is a great internal PCI hard modem...there are others.
If you have any problems with flaky phone lines, connections that "drop" for no apparent reason, or wildly fluctuating download speeds, then a hard modem is the only thing that may improve the situation. You may not connect that much faster, but the "throughput" will be higher...that is, even a fast connect at 44k can be full of errors, requiring repeat data transfer to get it right, net result is a download speed lower than 33k. A stable connect at 39k will be faster, because data is all recieved correctly the first time, thus actual download rate is 39k.

You've mentioned that you sometimes got 36k, and sometimes 49k. This is the exact type of connection problem I mentioned above.

Why your new modem is slower? It's possible that it's still using remnants of your old drivers, or that it's not optimized for your ISP, or...there are too many variables to count.

HTH.

 

I will firmly back up the first suggestion by reboot about an External.

They may be more of an initial cost but overtime they will be worth it. Mostly by being far more reliable.

They are much more likely to be capable of being tranfered from one OS to the other with little or no problems.

An external COM port is just that regardless of the OS.

I have an ancient USR 56K external ( one of the first ones made ) and stuck it onto COM2 in Windows XP and BINGO !. No drivers needed. I tdid not stay of course as I have Cable Internet. But it would dial phone numbers.

BillyBob

 

Hi,
Thanks for all the advice folks, I have changed back to my old v90 modem and everything seems to be back to normal.
I am going to look for a better modem as you all have adviced.
The only problem now is this sobig virus I wish someone would get rid of it. I have recieved 300 emails with the virus in the past 48 hours. My system is ok so far.

Neil.........

 

I would like to suggest a program called MailWasher.

With it you can look at the mail right on the server ( cannot be downloaded with MailWasher ) and then you can delete whatever looks suspicious and it will not have a chance to get to your machine.

I have deleted several that looked very suspicious to day alone.

BillyBob

 

Actually better than mailwasher for ONLY the sobig virus is, SobigStopper from www.bytegems.com
Install it, and leave it run all the time you're online, starting with Windows. It will check all your POP email accounts, identify the virus and delete them from the server, so you don't have to download and sort through them.