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- From: nde@winternet.com (Andy Yee)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: 21,600 on a 28,800???
- Date: Wed, 03 Jan 96 04:54:19 GMT
- Organization: StarNet Communications
- Message-ID: <4cd25r$bbg_002@dialup.winternet.com>
- References: <00001a31+00006a2c@msn.com> <4c40ks$juc@news2.aimnet.com> <4cca7e$j9p@news.internetmci.com> <4ccodc$9q5@mercury.galstar.com>
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- In article <4ccodc$9q5@mercury.galstar.com>,
- jcam@galaxy.galstar.com (James Campbell) wrote:
- >
- >One other suggestion, if you have an answering machine or Caller ID
- >box hooked up to the same line (and some cordless phones as well) try
- >disconnecting them and seeing if that helps. I consistently get 21.6
- >with those devices hooked up and 26.4 or 28.8 without them.
- >
-
- I have a Caller ID box, and two cordless phones, and I get 28.8 about 75% of
- the time, 26.4 23%, and less than that around 2%. In that case, I hang up and
- redial. I almost always get a faster line. That was to my ISP. To
- CompuServe, I get 28.8 100% of the time. I have a SupraFaxModem V.34
- external.
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