[talmid]

when one gets tired of the utterly slow internet connections and DL speeds and when one can't benefit of a ADSL cable for technical reasons (i’m too far of and the signal weakens) and of anything better (for other reasons) one asks oneself: how can i boost up the performance of my 56 k dial-up modem. Is there any way connecting it on a ethernetcard but using the ordinary phone-lines ? Any other solution?

[Gul Banana]

Unfortunately, 56k modems are limited to 56000 bps. No kind of tricks can change the total amount of bandwidth you can fit through them.

[mikellanes]

What kind of modem do you have? and who is your ISP? if your modem is v.92 compatable, and your ISP has v.92 access numbers you can gain a lot from that.

Living in the styx I had only dial-up or iDSL available to me, iDSL was $129/month and only 144K both ways. Soon the company went under after about 6 months of fine service. Around the same time my cable company said it would offer Cable Modem access shortly.

So instead of signing up with a new iDSL company (and another 12 month contract) I decided to get Dial-Up for the time being.

I went with Syracuse.net because they offer v.92 access numbers in my area.

With my first ISP (bellsouth.net) who wasn't v.92 the best I could get was around 26-28K with syracuse and the v.92 script I get a consistent 45.3K and around 4-6K on downloads, the best part is with the new compression surfing forums and such feels just as fast as my iDSL.

Also, when i get a phone call a screen pops-up (with caller ID) and I can choose to answer it while my internet connection is on hold. Then when im done, click resume and away I go.

Dialing-in: After the first few calls the time to connect seemed to go doen to around 15 seconds! im still amazed

If you can't get ANY broadband, then v.92 is a nice little boost and some nice features... plus it sure beats $130/month!

[Vanquish]

My ISP supports X2, what's that ? is it the same as v92 ? My ISP supports it. I would like to know this when I'm away from my lovely 3Mb DSL and somewhere else in the country.