dial-up rate limitation

[Gary Roach]

friends of mine are dial-up usera and until recently their dial-up
connection had been working fine with connection speeds in the 40kbps range.
now the connection rates are higher but the connection drops after a few
seconds. i attempted to limit the speed of the connection in order to
stabilize it. this works but unfortunately, the connection negotiation
doesn't always succeed and when it fails it ends in a long squawking noise
that eventually times out. perhaps there's a better way to alleviate the
problem. they're using a modem that uses the "softv90 data fax modem" driver
that comes with windows xp. the command i used to limit the connection speed
is "at+ms=,,,,75,40000". thanks for any help.

 

[Paul Johnson]

friends of mine are dial-up usera and until recently their dial-up
connection had been working fine with connection speeds in the 40kbps
range. now the connection rates are higher but the connection drops after
a few seconds. i attempted to limit the speed of the connection in order
to stabilize it. this works but unfortunately, the connection negotiation
doesn't always succeed and when it fails it ends in a long squawking noise
that eventually times out. perhaps there's a better way to alleviate the
problem. they're using a modem that uses the "softv90 data fax modem"
driver that comes with windows xp. the command i used to limit the
connection speed is "at+ms=,,,,75,40000". thanks for any help.

Your internal softmodem, if roasted and ground sufficiently finely, will
make surprisingly strong coffee. That's what I would do with that modem.

Can you reproduce the problem with a real modem? (WinModems, aka Software
Modems, aka Sound card with the wrong ports are not real modems). A real
modem will also give you some status lights, which will help
troubleshooting if you still have the problem after getting a real modem.

http://www.usr.com/products/home/home-product.asp?sku=USR5686E
The last modem you'll ever need to buy.