From: David Talkington (dtalk_at_soltec.net)
Date: Mon Jan 18 1999 - 12:30:55 EST
The website you mention is at http://808hi.com/56k/r-rnut-x2-3.htm .
In my experience, WinModems (like the one in my 1720, and probably in
Warren's TP) are, in fact, awful. Mine works ok if the phone lines are very
good, in which case it nearly matches the speeds attainable with my 3Com PC
card. At home, however, in an apartment building with old, crappy phone
lines, my 3Com card is still able to squeeze out about 37333, while the
WinModem refuses to handshake at more than 26k or so.
I honestly don't see the advantage, in cost or performance, of including one
of these temperamental devices in a machine of the ThinkPad's stature. I'm
not sure why IBM went that route for the internal modems on these machines.
Anybody know?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cottrell, Eric [mailto:ecottrell_at_Doble.com]
> Sent: Monday, January 18, 1999 9:53 AM
> To: 'thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu'; 'Warren Tan Wing Wah'
> Subject: RE: [770ED] It won't boot!!!
>
>
> >2. The modem is horrible. It's not my phone line, because both
> my desktop
> >and my Xircom 56k modem using the same phone line can achieve 46000bps
> >rates. My el expensivo Thinkpad's modem, shame on it, has only
> been up to
> >32000 max. Any suggestions on improving it? The v.90 upgrade
> didn't help.
> >Or are we all befalled with this same fate?
>
> Hello,
>
> It sounds like you are not connecting using a 56k protocol but using
> V.34
> protocol (33.6k). Sounds like you need to check a few things.
>
> Does you ISP support V.90 (or the other 56k protocol [X2 or K56Flex] in
> the
> modem)?
>
> Some modems need parameters in the init string to enable 56K.
>
> There are two sites with information. One is http://www.56k.com and
> I cannot think of the other URL but it is the "56K = V.Unreliable" Web
> Page. Both give good information on 56k and the problems you can
> have with it. I was able to set up the connect string on my modem
> (Rockwell-based) to give protocol and speed information in the connect
> string.
>
> 73 Eric eac_at_shore.net
>
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