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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

It turns out that although we have three '56K' non-winmodems, two of them 
will only connect at 28.8K because, if you query the modem, ATI17 tells 
you
6/16/97 and Options V32bis, V34+, X2

>From a web search:
V34+ - 28.8/33.6K  (v32bis is probably 28.8K)
X2 - obsolete 56K standard

When I set Windows to 33K or X2 or V90 it connects at 28.8K.  Once I got 
31.6K when I set it to 'standard' but usually also 28.8K.

The third modem is 2/10/98 and also lists v90.  When set to 'standard 
modem' it connects at 56K.

I hope these modems will connect at 33 rather than 28 in linux - how do I 
tell the connection speed?  Why is a v34+ modem connecting at 28.8K?

Now I know why we have these modems.  But 33K is not bad.

I can use Realaudio on a separate, slower, Win98 computer with a 56K 
winmodem, of which we have two that work at 56K.

On Tue, 4 May 2004, Sindi Keesan wrote:

> Having run out of good computer I put linux an Win98 together on two 
> computers, with our two 56K nonwinmodems.  DUN was connecting at 28.8 or 
> 31.2K until I changed the modem setting to 56K V90 on the Win98 SE 
> computer.  
> 
> The other dates from before we had the Win98SE CD and has ver 4.10.1998
> (first version of Win98?) to which I added some programs and changed fonts
> etc.  I discovered I cannot install SE on top of it - wants me to go buy
> the Win98 upgrade disk instead.  
> 
> This version offers 56K flex and X2 (two obsolete standards for 56K) but
> not V90.  At another time we tried a couple of upgradeable 33K > 56K 1997
> lucent winmodems and another 56K winmodem (flex and X2) and they would
> connect only at 28.8K - the standards are no longer supported.  So it has
> to be V90.
> 
> Is there some way to add 56K V90 by copying over a file between computers?
> All I saw on the CD under modems drivers seemed to be winmodems, not V90.
> 
> If not, can the CD somehow be used to install on top of the older version 
> without having to wipe it out first?  
> 
> The older Win98 also chokes on my B: drive (360K) and the newer one 
> ignores it (does not think it is there).  Five loud clunks and a long wait 
> each time I arrow past it in My Computer.
> 
> I thought of also putting in our 56K winmodem (which I do know how to
> install in the older Win98) but there is no free ISA slot (I already had
> to remove the HGC card to put in the non-Windows sound card).
> 
> The primary purpose of this Win98 is Realaudio which benefits from 56K.
> I wish I had sound working in linux and could forget Windows.  
> I want to listen to Bulgarian and Czech internet radio.
> 
> I know this is not really linux related but without linux on the computer 
> I could be using a winmodem and/or PCI sound card and not having these 
> problems.  The two OS'es do not coexist peaceably on new computers without 
> enough ISA slots.  (I have five empty PCI slots).  
> 
> A solution of last resort is to delete the Windows directory (come back in
> 1/2 hour) and run setup from the CD (and then go through and delete all
> the Welcome, AOL and MSN junk again for a few hours).  If I don't also
> delete Program Files would my program settings remain unchanged when I
> reinstall programs?  
> 
> 'I hate Windows'.
> 
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