Modem Strings...

[BlackHoleSun]

I have tried several, and mostly end up connecting slower. The only thing that works some in speeding up the connection is MTU. Is there really such a thing as a modem string that will connect at a higher speed?

[glc]

It all depends on the particular modem, your particular phone line, and your particular ISP. You can't generalize. *Ideally* with a good modem, clean line, and decent ISP, no string modifier is needed.

[Gintaras]

Yeah,
but "high connection" speed may endup in more errors, what's actually is slowdown.

Is troughput speed more important that connection speed?

I've connected @ "slower speeds" and pages loaded faster, downloads wre faster.
I've connected @ "higher speeds", pages were loading forever, downloads @ 2-3kbps.

I think, most important- good throuput speed, even if you have to limit your connection speed.

[SARGE]

I was connecting 49-50 with USR but alot of errors and slowdown. I lowered max speed to 42 and fixed the errors. I then cancelled the string, dialed the other # at ISP and got high connects with very few errors. I also noted it was a 3Com rack and other # wasn't. Of course, my Express can dial either one and simply flies.

[Omletteboy]

Here's a site http://www.modemhelp.org/inits/#m if you want to input some strings.

[glc]

Sarge - go figure - my Sportster works very well *except* on 3Com racks. 3Com racks connect at 28.8 every time - no V.90 - it "bongs" then retrains down to V.34. On other racks (flex capable V.90 - I assume Lucent) it connects anywhere between 29333 and 40000, and is rock stable. Looking at ATI6 after terminating shows it's retrained as high as 45333 somewhere along the line.