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 Jul 21 2010, 11:45 AM
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Broke down and purchased a DELL Studio Laptop with 32 bit VISTA (may be first mistake) - anyone know how to get a inexpensive upgrade to Win 7?
Problem is that there is no longer a built in modem, so I bought a pricy USR5637 modem. The driver provided seems to be Vern 1.3, made in China of course. I come up at 50.6 every time on my old desk top- now I have never seen this speed, as low as 20 something up to 40 something. Can anyone help get this resolved. Thanks Al. |
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Jul 24 2010, 07:13 AM
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I'm thinking modem drivers are not a high priority these days..... The only thing that comes to mind is to locate the proper driver from the manufacturer's website. They may have an updated driver for Windows 7 or Vista. The Windows update driver may not be the most optimum driver.
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Jul 24 2010, 09:30 PM
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 The Chicken  Group: Global Administrators Posts: 5,295 Joined: 14-July 05 From: Jesus comes Truth Member No.: 5 |
I'm not thinking that the drivers would have any effect on the connection speed, would they? I mean, unless they set an upper limit for some reason. My understanding was that the modems themselves negotiated their highest speed according to the quality of the line... that's what all that squawking noise is.
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Jul 28 2010, 02:03 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 88 Joined: 9-February 06 Member No.: 401 |
Thanks everyone.
I was able to make contact with USRobotics. They provided me a link to download the latest firmware available for this device, the version being 1.2.19: This appears to have improved the performance, I seem to be connecting consistently at 44Kbps. Now this isn't 50.6, however it seems to be performing adequately. So Thanks for now. Al. |
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Aug 2 2010, 07:23 PM
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Bob was most technically correct and the line quality is normally a key factor in throughput performance. Are you running over twisted pair from Bell Canada? I am not sure but in the seventies and eighties you could have their repair folks run line insulation tests and the like if a poor local drop was suspected. Best of luck.
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Aug 3 2010, 05:52 AM
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Relentless Poster Group: Order of the Forum Posts: 762 Joined: 25-January 09 From: Cornwall, ON Member No.: 3,660 |
Andy, The only modems not affected by drivers were the hardware modems before the advent of WinModems. Most modems produced nowadays are of the latter variety. Winmodems are notorious for slow connection speeds when either bad drivers or slow and overworked processors are involved. Most of the processing is done by the CPU. They are also called softModems.
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Aug 3 2010, 08:29 AM
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The Chicken Group: Global Administrators Posts: 5,295 Joined: 14-July 05 From: Jesus comes Truth Member No.: 5 |
QUOTE(Yvan @ Aug 3 2010, 07:52 AM)  Andy, The only modems not affected by drivers were the hardware modems before the advent of WinModems. Most modems produced nowadays are of the latter variety. Winmodems are notorious for slow connection speeds when either bad drivers or slow and overworked processors are involved. Most of the processing is done by the CPU. They are also called softModems. This is a USB modem, and its data sheet says "This controller-based modem integrates powerful communications processing functions into the modem itself, for assured performance without sapping your computer’s processing power. It is also broadly compatible across major operating systems including Linux, Windows and Macintosh." so I don't think it's a WinModem. -------------------- Everyone who enters into any kind of debate should read "The Intolerance of Tolerance". Be egalitarian towards persons; be elitist towards ideas.
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