Dial Up Speeds pc/laptop

[lunatic23]

a mate of mines has a pc and a laptop at home. he uses these to access a network in work.

the pc is W98 & uses a Hayes 56k modem,
the laptop is a toshiba and has a 56k internal modem.

when he connects to work with the pc he gets speeds of 19~20kbit/s and when he connects with the laptop he gets speeds of 30~33kbits/s

the obvious test would be to use the hayes modem on the laptop to see if thats the cause of the slow connection, that hasn't been tried yet [monday i think he's trying that] but i'm wondering if theres any other issues that might cause the difference in speeds.

thanks much someone once told me to shut up...

 

[Comtech]

Modem driver version.
Modem chipset.
Modem manufacturer.
Modem type (PCI, ISA, Serial, USB, PCMCIA).
CPU speed.
Amount of RAM.
Operating system.
Loaded programs.
Free resources.

I could probably think of more... Cheers,
Jim

http://members.cnx.net/reboot/

 

[AndrewRW]

Sounds like a line-noise problem. Try listening to the line with a handset. Differences in speeds might be because of different throughput capability with the noise(?).

There's a decent modem troubleshooter at:

http://808hi.com/56k/tshoot.htm

 

[lunatic23]

when it first happened i got onto the telephone company & they optimised the line for data & said that the speed would go up - but it didn't. so..

i ended up swapping out the hayes accura with a us robotics [just to test it] and the speed shot up to the same as the laptop, everyones happy now & we use the hayes as a doorstop

ps: thats a good site tho, i'll keep it in mind
thanx
luni

someone once told me to shut up...