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- From: teleback@websoftware.com (Bill Barnes)
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- Subject: Re: Refusing 14.4 and forcing 28.8 connection with USR Sportster under Win95
- Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1996 12:47:05 GMT
- Organization: WEB Software & Consulting, Inc.
- Message-ID: <4jtrue$h7h@tci2.totcon.com>
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- Meursault@mail.utexas.edu (Steven S. Fang) wrote:
-
- >Hello.
-
- >I have a US Robotics Sportser 28.8 modem and I am running Windows95. I use the
- >32-bit TCP/IP capabilities that came with Windows95 to connect to my Internet
- >service provider.
-
- >About half of my ISP's modems are 28.8 while the others are 14.4, but both
- >types are connected to the one and only dial-in line. It's extremely
- >frustrating when I connect at only 14.4. The only way I know how to force a
- >26.4+ connection now is to disconnect whenever I get (or "hear") a 14.4
- >connection and keep re-dialing until I get a 26.4+ connection. That gets to be
- >rather tedious. So ...
-
- >Does anyone know of a simpler approach? For instance, is there a scripting
- >utility that I can use to perform that tedious task for me? Any help would be
- >much appreciated.
-
- Couldn't you just switch to another provider? We were using one with
- the same setup. All of a sudden we found 3 other providers in our
- area that were using only 28800 modems. Life is much better now! <g>
-
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-
- Bill Barnes
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