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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Alejandro Lieber wrote:

> >> cat /var/eznet/transcript.0 | grep CONNECT
> 
> I tried this on three computers with 56K v90 modems - first was 
> 57600, second had connected at 28800.

I thought that was true connection speed, until Steven corrected me.
The connection speed is just what the modem says it's connected at.
Sometimes it just repeats the baud rate of the serial port, which is
what you have here. To get the true connection rate you'll have to
try downloading something and measuring the time it takes.

> Is there some way to tell 
> the modem not to connect at less than 33K?  A third one today at 
> 45333.

Why do you want that? If you tell it to not connect at the low rate,
and the modem has trouble getting a good connection, you'll never
get connected.

> The first is a fairly new external and the others internal, at 
> least one upgraded from x2 to v90.

I've got two real modems, one is a PCMCIA card for a laptop, the
other is the ISA one I mentioned earlier. I also have two fake
modems: an LTmodem (which I got to work with BL) and a PCTel
softmodem in my laptop. 

The PCMCIA modem is far less likely than the others to get full v.90
speed. Both the PCMCIA and the ISA modem were originally X2 modems,
but I flash upgraded them. The PCMCIA modem reports full speed, the
ISA modem just always says "CONNECT 57600". Bummer.

David
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