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Cloud121 - Aug 17, 2002

		Cloud121		Aug 17, 2002
			hey guys, I have dial-up ay my dad's, and I use it for SegaNet at my mom's. There's something odd about it though. At my dad's whenever I connect, it's always 26.4 or 24.0 (26.4 is the most common one). However, at my mom's whenever I connect to SegaNet through my DC, it always connects at 31.2k. I decided to test the connection on my computer here at my mom's. I unplugged the cable out of the network card (for my cable modem), then I setup Dial-Up Networking, with my dad's username and login, and connected dialed up. I get a whopping 50k connection! Why is this? Is it the modems (all 56k)? Is it the phone line in my house? Is it the ISP? I don't understand... Is it location related (My dad lives about 20 - 30 minutes south of my mom's)?

		Hatecrime69		Aug 17, 2002
			It has to do with a bunch of things, phone line quality defnitly matters, the phone number you use to connect to the isp and the time it connects matters

		RitualOfTheTrout		Aug 17, 2002
			also the modems.. Simply upgrading from a crappy Lucent 56K to a USR 56K upped my connection from about 31.2 to about 49.3 So maybe the modem in the DC isnt as good as the on in the pc?

		Link Hylia		Aug 18, 2002
			It's probably a software based modem, whereas the SH-4 does all the work. so, to get playable speeds, they chopped the speed of several things. Nothing beats a Hardware based modem. well a Cable/DSL modem, or a T1 or T3 or OC3 connection does

		Falstaf		Aug 19, 2002
			Where are you getting those connection speeds from? Don't always trust the numbers that windows displays. They've been known to be inaccurate.