[DooDiddley]

Hi folks. I'm having a weird problem with my modem port speed. I'm using a 3Com US Robotics 56k Voice Faxmodem (EXT) with Windows 2000 Pro. When I dial in, I connect anywhere between a whopping 7.2 kbps and 115200. I usually don't have a problem when I first boot/reboot. The low connection speeds of 7.2 and 9.6 kbps usually occur after my pc has been inactive for awhile and no matter how many times I disconnect and try to re-connect, I get the same low speeds until I reboot. Here are my modem, port, and some registry settings:

Modem
port speed: 115200
data protocol: standard EC
compression: enabled
flow control: hardware
data bits: 8
parity: none
stop bits: 1
modulation: standard Modem

Com2
bits per second: 115200
data bits: 8
parity: none
stop bits: 1
flow control: hardware

MTU: 576
RWIN: 256960
TTL: 128

I've made other registry changes, too. Did I screw something up, maybe? I welcome any suggestions anybody might have and if I didn't give enough info, let me know.

Thanks.

[DooDiddley]

As I say "usually", I just got stuck at 9.6 after rebooting. Bummer.

Thanks for your reply but I may be misunderstanding something. You say "56k modems of ANY kind cannot get over 4.7 kbps really!" I'm not talking about my download speed, I'm talking about my computer to modem port speed. I didn't used to have this problem. It seems to coincide with my messing around with the modem and registry settings. I've saved a backup of my registry and imported it to see if that would correct the problem since it is the pre-messing around in the registry verion, but that didn't help. Is it possible it could be something as simple as an incorrect desktop setting?

I understand that I may just have to work this out by continued trial and error. I was just hoping that it might be something obvious to all of you experts. If you ever think of anything else, I'd sure welcome the advice.

Thanks again.

[Flak]

If your using the standard modem drivers, try using the ones written by US robotics, I'm not sure if your experiencing the old win9x bug where if you were using the standard modem driver, your connect speed would always be the same as the prot speed.