Re: [TP600}Modem in W2K

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From: Emanuel Brown (epbrown01_at_att.net)
Date: Mon Jan 22 2001 - 01:11:15 EST


On Sun, 21 Jan 2001 21:57:50 -0800, you wrote:

>On Fri, 19 Jan 2001 17:56:38 -0600, Emanuel Brown wrote:
>
>> I upgraded my 600E to W2K and the modem performance stinks. I've
>>cruised around on IBM's site and this seems to be a known issue, and
>>there doesn't appear to be a solid solution. Is there a fix for this?
>>If not, I'm going to have to go back to Windows 98 (it's *that*
>>slow!).
>
>
>What speeds do you get? I got about 37K on mine, under Win2K, but I have
>one of those new 3COM 10/100 and 56K combo cards, and I get 49K with it,
>even from my apartment (which I normally thought had bad lines because I was getting
>31.2K with a hardware modem).
>
        I'm getting 37k - 45k, only the modem inexplicably pauses for
periods of over a minute, then resumes.
        Emanuel
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