Re: [TP600}Modem in W2K

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From: Chuck Blaisdell (chuck_at_ccncn.org)
Date: Mon Jan 22 2001 - 01:25:51 EST


On 22 Jan 2001, at 0:11, Emanuel Brown wrote:

> 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.

The very same thing consistently happens to me on my 600E, but
with either Win98 or Win98SE


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