Dialup gaming with Vista

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Kevin

Installed vista on my gaming comp and had a Trendnet TFM-560x modem. Modem
would connect between 42.5k-48k but would experience long pauses, high
latency and disconnects. I replaced with a USR 5686E and first connect was
49.2k which immediately paused, experienced high latency and crashed the game
I was playing. Updated firmware and drivers but modem connects anywhere from
28.8k-48k but experiences same problems as before. It's not the ISP or phone
lines I've gone down those roads already, any suggestions? Thanks in advance
for any help.
 
P

Patrician

Kevin said:
Installed vista on my gaming comp and had a Trendnet TFM-560x modem.
Modem
would connect between 42.5k-48k but would experience long pauses, high
latency and disconnects. I replaced with a USR 5686E and first connect
was
49.2k which immediately paused, experienced high latency and crashed the
game
I was playing. Updated firmware and drivers but modem connects anywhere
from
28.8k-48k but experiences same problems as before. It's not the ISP or
phone
lines I've gone down those roads already, any suggestions? Thanks in
advance
for any help.
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Get a serial port modem, they are the only ones that you can be sure are
hardware modems. Any other will probably be a software modem and they were
never very reliable.

Trev
 
K

Kevin

It is a serial modem. All modems I've used in the last 5yrs have all been
hardware modems and all have required serial ports.
 
K

Kevin

Weird thing is, with XP my winsoft modem (a creative blaster) connected
better, had better throughput and was a lot more stable than most of the
hardware modems that I've purchased. It also is still alive and kicking,
after a good 3 years, while almost ever hardware modem I've purchased died
out and went the way of target practice for my .45 in just about 1 year.

Too bad vista doesn't support my old modem.
 
N

Not Me

I started using 'soft' modems with W3.1, once you get the driver right, they
work fine.
 
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