i am tyring to force my dial up modem to connect to the net at it's max speed!

[mainframe19]

of 115200bps!

but it will only connect at 41.kbps max!!!!!!!

so is there away to foce it to connect at 115200bps??

you whould think there whould be! cause the of the max speed of the modem is 115200bps...

any how, how can i get the max speed out of my modem???

[Trotterwatch]

You sure 115200bps is not the port speed.

[2fast4u]

aye, if im not mistaken 115200bps is the max serial port speed.

[t0rek]

take a look this thread mainframe

http://www.emutalk.net/showthread.php?t=6310

[dreamer]

i read that extra thread :) looks like that was made a while ago, i have got 20 kbps on wimx for one download but otherwise no higher than 5-6 kbps on my 56 k (which i dislike). but surely there is a way to uncap it or make it faster? otherwise why would it start off server downloads at 30 k? most downloads seem to be capped to 4 k :(

[The Khan Artist]

You're not going to get more than 53 kbps on standard phone lines unless by some freak accident. It just isn't going to happen.

[sheik124]

i read that extra thread :) looks like that was made a while ago, i have got 20 kbps on wimx for one download but otherwise no higher than 5-6 kbps on my 56 k (which i dislike). but surely there is a way to uncap it or make it faster? otherwise why would it start off server downloads at 30 k? most downloads seem to be capped to 4 k :(
you diphead, your confused, your getting 5-6 KBs on your 56Kbps connection, not 5-6 Kbps on a 56KB connection
Kb = 1/8 KB

[AlphaWolf]

A modem is basically a TTY (character) serial device that simply uses a phone line to transmit characters, and 115200 is a valid port speed for anything with a 16550 UART. However, the modems firmware will probably reject any port speed greater than what the modem is rated for. Even if you could defeat that check, it would be useless because the modem on the other end wouldn't accept a higher speed in its handshake, and not only that, but your phone line would never be able to support that kind of throughput.

[revl8er]

Umm 4-7kb is usually gonna be what anyone on a 56k modem will get.

[blight]

for phone lines 1KB is actually bits/10, not /8 because of the start/stop bits

[DuDe]

The first post is pure gold.

[Alchy]

i read that extra thread :) looks like that was made a while ago, i have got 20 kbps on wimx for one download but otherwise no higher than 5-6 kbps on my 56 k (which i dislike). but surely there is a way to uncap it or make it faster? otherwise why would it start off server downloads at 30 k? most downloads seem to be capped to 4 k :(

Afraid not. That's just rounding errors on the behalf of Winmx/Windows. Most of your downloads are "capped" at 5/6k, but that's just down to your phoneline. If you're getting 6k steadily, that's pretty good for a 56k connection. If there was any way to make your modem connection considerably faster, you'd know about it by now ;)

Get used to it or get broadband.