Connection speed

[Louiscypher]

HI
In the last 2 weeks my connection speed has fallen from an average 49 kbps to 35 kbps, i have no problem using phone dialer or hyperterminal to connect to any other Phone no, so i presume it is not the modem (56K), i have been in touch with my ISP but of course it is nothing to do with them, i am dual boooting ME and XP Pro, and it happens with both, i do not think it is the software, as in ME i have to install the drivers and in XP the drivers are installed from the XP setup disc, i have very rarely had any problems up til now. can anybody think of anything else i could try to correct the problem.
Thanks

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Louiscypher

[J A L]

Hi,
It's more than likely the phone company. This happens lots where I live and the only way I was able to get around it was to get cable internet or DSL. The phone lines here are spliced so much that even tho i am real close to the phone co I cannot get better than 38 kb speed. The phone lines are 70 years old here! And they are pathetic! Dropped connections galore. I don't know how I lived on dial up before cable or Dsl! Oh I used to have two phone lines and I used two modems by multilink bonding them and i was getting 75 kb connections at times! So I borrowed a phone line from a neighbor as a test and ran three modems and got over 110 kb speed. Of course your Isp and your os must support Multilink bonding!

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