With a dial-up connection, why do I allways connect at a speed of 26400bps, and when i use the same connection on a diiferent computer, i conncet at 46000 bps. And the modem is the same of 54 k
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My lands to have that speed!!!!!!!!  This is what the phone company (SBC) repair guy told me,  the speed depends on the location of computer, length of phone line going into computer & the distance of phone line entering home from main outside phone pedestal.  The phone pedestal is 1/2 mile from where line enters my home, I only get 24Kbps on a good day, hopefully no rain.  Hope this explains a little about the speeds.
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The ping requests are timing out. The computer is not getting a response back from the host computer fast enough. This can be caused by a series of possibilies. The first and the easiest to check is the cable going from one computer to the other. Simply by switching the cable one can check this. Two, the host computer isnt fast enough. The network card isn't working properly or a firewall setting or other software is conflicting. Three and still the same. Could be the network card, firewall or software pm the other computer. If this is a dial-up connection this is to be expected as the line cannot handle very much traffic and even one or two backround programs on both computer can "eat" all the bandwidth.If this is a high speed connection then simply installing a router.
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Sounds to me like your problem could be with the type of modem you're using..whether you're using dialup, cable, etc. Video files are quite large, and speed of uploads will vary depending what type of service you're currently using.
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This depands on your connection speed and the speed of the server/computer you are downloading from, you could be trying to download using cable from someone on dial up, so you can only TAKE the file as fast as they can GIVE it. Using cable/DSL and downloading from a good site or P2P, no more than about 2 mins, can be as fast as 45seconds.
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ok, here, i'll explain, in much better etail than the other 2 answers. \nA dial-up modem is really nothing more than a telephone. only, it is programed to interpret certain sounds/electrical signals that come from the telephone as somthing that your computer can understand. because of this, it does act as a telephone call, thus, you cannont make any calls on that line. \n\na DSL modem is basically the same thing, believe it or not. it still uses your phone line, but, it uses a different frequency to transfer information. it uses a higher frequency of the phone line, like the fast and slow lanes of a highway. but, the major difference between the dial-up modem and the DSL one right now is that the DSL modem has to be configured to recieve these high frequency messages.\n\na Cable modem is completely different from both dial-up and DSL modems. a cable modem uses a different wire, instead of a telephone wire, it uses a digital coaxle wire. this wire supports more data transfer at a time than phone wires do, thus, you may get higher speeds of interent.\n\nnow, there is one last thing that is usually overlooked. as you probably know, you have 1+ telephone wire per a house. and this wire, never joins with other wires. thus, it is alwayse only you on your phone, nodoby else. because of this, DSL's speed of internet remains relativly the same throught the day. However, the coaxle cable that you have for a cable modem joins togeather with everyone in your community, so, if more people are on the internet in your community, then your connection will be slower. so, at different times during the day, your connection may be slightly faster of slower, depending on how many other people in your community are on the internet.
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The 2 common units to express internet speed, kbps and KB/sec.\nkbps is KILO BITS PER SECOND.\nKB/sec is KILO BYTES / SECOND.\n(Value in KB/Sec * 8 ) = value in kbps\n64 KB/sec  *  8            = 512 kbps.\n\nHope that is clear enough.
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You cannot make the network operate at the old fashioned slower speed.   The modem speed and connection speed cannot be down shifted.\n\nWith some moderate computing coding effort, you could simulate the slower speed by writing a program that, within the PC, delays response time OR transmits characters (bytes) of information at a simulated slower rate.\n\nToday's connection speeds are fast but still very far from the fastest transmission speeds.   If you want to learn about how fast things can be transmitted, google the phrase "femto second".   The wires that are used in broadband have no inherent speed.   It is the box that you connect at the two ends of the connection that determine the transmission and receiving speeds.
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You only have 4MB between you and your Internet Service Provider (ISP), so you can only download files on their server at that speed. As you found out, you'll run into other bottlenecks everywhere else.
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You need boardband on you computer. it is hard on dialup. youneed at least 768 speed.
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i affraid u cant increase the speed... the only solution is a high-speed connection!
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preferences > connection > make sure everything is set right. But i just checked mine, I have DSL but it was set on dial-up, but it still works lol. probably the main thing though is about the proxy. Mine was set on No proxy, which is the default setting.
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After any kind of broadband, dial-up is going to PAINFULLY slow.  Web sites are adding more & more graphics all the time, not to mention the time it takes to load all the adds.  So it will only get worse.
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Upgrading your connection speed will definitly help.  I went from a dial up connection to 1.5mb and my downloads are, on the average, about 12 minutes faster.
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1. is your connection faster when your brother's computer is off? if so, then it is simply that his computer is using more of the total bandwidth, probably it is closer to the socket or router.\n\n2. if your computer is still slow with his computer off, then it may be your hardware or software.
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u can't do much.. dial-up tops out at 53 Kb/S, there are regulations from the phone company which restrict the voltage swing, there is also the cabling characteristics, etc.
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That's very likely because your adapter can handle alot more\nthan you're outside link can provide.\nI.e. if you have a 100mbit network card connected to a broadband\ndsl modem with 6mbit you can easily see that the network utilization\nwon't go up too far. It's calculated by the link speed of the adapter.\nThat doesn't have to be the speed you're actually connected with\non the other side of the modem or router.
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Most of the times questions like this one are asked by people not seeing the difference between Mbps and MBps.  Yes, case is important.\n\n1 Mbps equals 1000 Kbps (not 1024 !!!) equals 1,000,000 bps (not 1,048,576 !!!).\nThere are 8 b(its) in 1 B(yte). You get 125,000 bytes per second. Windows weenies think 1 kilobyte is 1024 bytes, so they think they get 122 KBps or even 119 KBps.\n\nThere is also the case of protocol overhead.  Data is moved inside TCP packets, which are transported inside IP packets, which are transported in ethernet frames, or ATM cells, or whatever other protocol.  Providers may compensate you for the carrier protocol (such as DSL overhead) but not for IP and TCP overhead; that's your fault thus your cost.\n\nIf one direction of the link is saturated, the other way will suffer. This has to do with acknowledgements not being transmitted as soon as could be.  If you saturate your uplink, you will get less data downloaded per time interval.  Yet another reason to clean your PC and remove that spam bot from it: not only do others suffer, but you are also hurting yourself.\n\nLast but not least: maybe your line is capable of transporting "x" bytes per second, but it needs not be the bottleneck.  Perhaps something else on the internet, such as the server you're getting your data from, is slowing things down.