Is there any speed boost from v.90 to v.92?

[stonecut]

I have a zoom 56k pci v.90 modem on win 98.
I've seem some v.92 modem advertised as giving a 30% boost in speed over a v.90. Is this hype or is there some truth to this?
Thanx
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[Comtech]

It's part hype and part truth.
Start here:

http://www.pcmech.com/show/modems/183/

There's absolutely NO point in getting a V.92 modem unless your ISP supports it, and I don't know ANY that do.

Cheers,
Jim

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[jimbopalmer]

http://www.modems.com/isplist.html

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[InnoTech]

you knwo what the funny thing is about all the v.92 crap? ok, that listed all the v.92 ISP's right? well, there is alot of different devices being sold like at radio shack and the such that is banking off the v.92 standard. you know, the connection on hold feature and the quick connection speed crap. well that list of v.92 servers list HOW MANY ISP'S??? there are people buying that crap up not ever knowing that they need a v.92 modem AND ISP. and there is obviously not many of them out there at all. it kinda ticks me off. not that i have to worry about dailing out anymore but i have to listen to them call in and get mad at my company for not supporting it.

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[jimbopalmer]

if no one buys a v.92 modem because no ISP supports it yet, why would any ISP support it, no one has one?

it's the chicken and the egg problem

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[InnoTech]

yeah, i guess you're right. which one am i? egg or chicken i know i won't be upgrading to v.92 for lack of need to. they did the best they could to improve connection speeds when broadband came out. ;-) now that i have wifi, upgrading dail-up just won't be happening.


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[jimbopalmer]

in theory, there is a speed up downloading uncompressed files in v.44. (the compression part of v.92)

The older v.42 only did 4 to 1 compression, so it took a 230k serial port to keep a 56k modem full.

v.44 allows 8 to 1 compression of uncompressed files, but only if your serial port is running at 460k or higher, which may mean USB or an internal but sure isn't RS232!

mind you many files are already compressed (.zip, .jpg, .mp3) so it does not help there

I tried to remain child-like, all I acheived was childish.