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- From: hlarons@mail.comcat.com (Howard Arons)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: accurate bps reading?-
- Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 15:47:40 GMT
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- Andrew Cassel <Andrew.Cassel@phillynews.com> wrote:
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- >I finally got my new Zoom 28.8 modem to work, and it _does_ seem
- >somewhat faster than the old 14.4 .... but every time I connect to my
- >ISP now, I get a message that I'm hooked up at 115200 bps. It ain't
- >_that_ fast ... when I'm downloading, I frequently see transfers of less
- >than 1k/sec. What gives? Is there some way of checking to see the real
- >connection speed? And is there some setting change that'll tweak it up a
- >couple notches?
- >--
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- > Andrew.Cassel@phillynews.com
- >----------------------------------------
- Andrew,
-
- That's the DTE or modem-to-computer speed you're seeing. Use "W1" or
- "S95=46" in your init string to get the DCE or modem-to-modem speed.
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- Howard Arons
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