OT (Maybe) Checking out modem connection to ISP

Hi Tom,
I don't have an answer to your question but a few ideas.
Check your phone line and see if there is a lot of noise.
Here in the states the phone company will put some kind of filter on a line
which has a lot of noise.

Phone lines  any where between your connections can be at fault.

How about the satellites the phones depend on.  Do you know anything about
their orbits?  Sometimes a satellite passing overhead will open my garage
door!

I recently exchanged an internal modem with an external one.  The internal
one was what they call a software modem.  The external modem is the same
(33.6)  but my connections are almost always faster with it.

When I had this extra phone line installed someone told me to ask for a
regular phone line and not to tell them it was for a computer.  There are
two kinds of phone lines.  The regular one is better.

Good luck,
Lois Duckworth

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