re: Serious packet loss problems
Wednesday, December 3, 2003 at 4:50 pm
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Fizzy
(2 messages posted)
Did I say USB? I meant US Robotics... my connection to my modem is between 28,000
- 100ks ( means nothing to me ) this problem only came up recently... I believe after
a thunderstorm and this modem was bought after it... I was thinking about satalite...
I do have bell express vu so that could be an option but my sending still gets interupted.
My isp that works best is about 60k from where I live. Roughly. Yet just today I
was working on a friends computer who uses the same ISP down the road and her connection
was fine.
Trust me if I was working with USBs I'd expect serious packet loss but this is bull.
Hmmm... Yes maybe I will go for the satalite modem... But you know of no ways around
this with my 56k for now?
On Wednesday, December 3, 2003 at 10:53 am, Jack Gulley wrote:
>If you live way out in the boon docks as you say, your phone line is very long
>(over four miles) from the Central Office (CO). DSL is not normally offered at such
>distances (Although some do offer 192kbps/64kbps service on long lines.) Dial-up
>connection speeds drop off real fast the longer the lines. When I visit my father
>who lives four miles from even the closest paved road, keeping even a slow 2400bps
>connection for more that five minutes is impossible. On long lines noise is a problem.
> Most likely you or someone in you area complained about noise on the line and
>the phone company installed noise filters on the lines to get rid of it, or there
>may be water damage in one of their connector boxes. If you pick up a phone and
press
>a button, you should not hear noise on the line. If you do, there is a problem with
>it. But if you complain, the phone company fix might be to add more noise filters,
>not replace the lines.
> If the phone lines cross roads several times, passing trucks can cause noise
on
>lines. The hot sun or cold at night can cause lines to stress connections and degrade
>the quality of you phone line connection.
> They do not guarantee good modem connections, only usable voice service.
> If they do not fix it, then your only choice is to slow down your connection
speed.
>A slower connection can get through noise better. You may have to disable V.92 and
>V.90 and force 33.3kbps speeds.
> You did not say what you connection speed are. (I consider a USB connected modem
>a problem anyway as this interface can cause all sorts of problems.) Not sure how
>you do it with USB modems, but you can try slowing it down with modem commands.
Try
>putting in the "extra commands" line for your connection software the following
command
>to disable V.92 connections which your ISP may not support anyway.
>
> +PIG=1 +PMH=1 +PQC=3
>
>That will slow down the connection speed some and fall back to slower speeds
which
>may work better.
> If that does not work, replace with S32=98 and if V.90 does not work,
the
>try S32=66 to force V.34 connections.
> You could also try a good quality internal WinModem on a system with a PCI slot.
>They may work better on bad lines. The
>target="_blank"> Modemsite modem is the best quality WinModem you can get, by
>far, and has the best drivers (Agere/Lucent). Has old style relay and transformer
>for lightning protection on long phone lines. On my bad line, it gives 5K better
>connects and fewer problems than my USB External V.92 modem did. The web site also
>has lots of information on modems and connection problems.
> If Cable Internet is not available, the Satellite Internet is your only choice.
>Not very fast for the high price, but should work a lot better than any phone line.
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