Author: gerold daniels
Date: 04:57:16 01/26/05
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On January 26, 2005 at 03:26:39, Joshua Shriver wrote: >Guessing you have a 56k modem.. and if your speed is that low, it's not a great >sign. > >When I have had problems like this in the past it was because of old/faulty >wiring (I live in a 70+ year home). Perhaps have a line test on your phone >lines. >It could be old wiring, a lot of bends in the wire, line noise, a lot of things. > >Also check with your inet provider... I haven't used dialup in a while, but >remember back in the day they had seperate #'s to call if you where a 56kbit >user vs 33.6 or lower (56kbit is different from the others since the ISP has to >have a digital line from the hub to their complex for it to work.. part of the >specs) > >While it can be a number of things, I would say faulty wiring is more than >likely 99% the culprit. You can buy line testers at radio shack for a couple >bucks, but I'm figure your phone company would do it for free and be more >accurate. > >Hope that helps a bit. > >Sincerely, >Joshua Shriver > >P.S. By chance if it is faulty or old wiring, it's not that expensive to fix. I >literally went to Walmart bought a spool of phone wire, connected it to the box, >around the ceiling of my basement, and drilled a hole in the floor to my room, >then pulled the wire up, connected it to a phone jack, screwed it in.. voila new >wiring. Probably cost less than $10 for the wire and the outlet. > >Also in respect to software that can speed things up... there are thinks like >that, though I haven't tested it. I think it also has to be setup on the ISP >side... things like AOL,etc which claim to have faster service.. I believe it's >done because when a request is sent out... the ISP gathers it.. compresses it on >the fly, sends it to you, and your puter uncompresses the data. I'm not claiming >to be 100% accurate here, just what I've read elsewhere. Might work with other >ISP's etc... best guess google for it, and try them out. If it works, more power >to you. > > > >On January 25, 2005 at 22:26:29, gerold daniels wrote: > >>good evening i have the slowest dialup . thats all i can get here. 24 kbps. >>i have xpwindows.is there any software that can speed up this service. >>thanks in advance. >> >>gerold. good morning joshua thanks for the sugestions i didn,t think their was any software that could help.the dial up number is located 20 miles away in town. i live in the country so there is no dsl here. satilite cost about 800 bucks for the equipment to get it. and 75 bucks a mo. for the service. so stuck with the dial up for now. thanks for the fast reply. gerold.
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