Frustrated Web users are turning to 3Com's US Robotics modems to increase their Internet performance. But a faster modem is just the start: maximizing your modem's performance to ensure that your X2 technology impacts your entire Web experience is the best way to get the most out of your online experience.

3Com and VitalSigns have joined forces to release USR Net.Medic, a product designed with the end user in mind. Net.Medic acts as your modem dashboard, giving you detailed information about your modem performance, including real-time activity, connection speeds, instantaneous transfer rates, compression rates and error tracking. The Net.Medic modem dashboard will even allow you to optimize your modem to get the most out of your own personal environment-including tuning your desktop and ensuring the optimal connection to your ISP. The product also includes a Call Log that gives you an historical record of your successful connections, busy signals, no answers, connection rates and errors encountered, giving you the tools you need to take control of your corner of the Internet.

But optimizing your modem and local environment, while absolutely essential to a high-speed Internet connection, isn't always enough. You need to have end-to-end visibility into all aspects of your online experience-from your local PC and modem through the ISP and Internet Backbone to the Web Site you're trying to visit. Net.Medic dramatically improves your Internet experience by monitoring, diagnosing, and correcting your end-to-end Internet experience. Net.Medic quickly identifies problems, offers recommendations for solving them, and in many cases, automatically fixes them for you.