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I went to disable that stupid speaker in my 56k modem and I also saw these options below. Is it safe to bump up my speed from the default 115200bps to 921600 like you can see? And does enabling modem compression speed things up a little? I look at my status but it only says the compression is 14%, you'd think it would be higher. I'm assuming 50% compression would make a big difference. Loading my homepage (HF's of course) seemed awfully zippy but it could just me firefox. What do you think? Thanks.
 

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You can turn up your software compression as high as you like, and it really won't make much of a difference. You're not even close to actually getting 115200 right now, so boosting it up further probably won't yield you any more bandwidth. The bottleneck for dialup is that it uses a very narrow frequency range, which is very limiting on the theoretical data transfer rate. You're about at the maximum limit that technology can provide.
 
I used to always mess around with those settings when i was on 56k and it didn't cause me any problems but I'm not sure if it does speed things up, hard to tell. You might as well do it I think.
 
Thanks guys, I'm probably just imagining the difference as it's obviously still under 56k (more like 45-46k actually). Can't blame myself for trying anyway.
 
I used to only get 40k and it dropped every two hours and it dropped randomly every 5 minutes in evening so i went mad, that was reason i joined the forums but no1 cud eva work out why it did it.....i hope i never feel those emotions again... But anyway now i got DSL and its not the fastest u can get (dam aol offering twice my speed for same price to NEW customers) but its much better than that sorry excuse for a connection I had before!
 
Dial-up is so annoying when you think about your friends using DSL to download songs in 30 seconds while you take 30 bloody minutes. I can't get driver updates unless I leave the thing on overnight (18MB is a grueling process), plus connecting every time I want to see if I got a response is such a pain. It's not even that much cheaper concidering what you get. We pay $20 a month for dial-up while my grandparents pay $30 for verisons DSL and that's not the cheapest either. Wherever I move to had darn well better offer DSL that's for sure.
 
Darn tootin! :chk:

*EDIT* argh im doing it again...without me actually knowing, words from the previous post are influencing what i reply with!!!
 
Dial up was so slow for me. I'd never get anywhere close to 50k, its mainly because dial up depends on phone line quality and if its bad you lose some bandwidth for error checking.
 
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