How primitive is someone's computer if they have (gulp) 28k dial up modem?
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You can still access the internet with that thing?
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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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Yes you need one for dial up.It is usually a 56 kpbs internal modem that comes with the computer.You can also get an external modem if your system dont have that
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because you are using dial-up, the songs and videos especially will be choppy and freeze... not really enough bandwidth to carry all that info to your computer that quickly...
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You could run it inside VMWare Player or M$ Virtual PC. You possibly could talk to it via the virtual LAN card.
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All what you need is available on these sites:\nhttp://www.modemsite.com/56k/x2-hyperterm.asp\nhttp://cloud.ccsf.cc.ca.us/Pub/Fac/hyperterm.html
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Hi there,\n\nIf it is a Dial up modem then:\n\n1. Start > Control Panel > Phone and Modem options > Modem Tab > Properties > Modem Tab again > Select 57600 as Port speed since 115200 gives a pseudo connection speed resulting in slow connections. Click OK and close all the windows. Restart your system.\n\n2. Check with your ISP/Telephone company for any AT Strings required.\n\n3. Remove any Fax / Answering machine from the same line.\n\n4. Avoide to use cable more than 2-3mts long.\n\n\nHope this helps...\n\nArash Shirali...
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Get broadband, period.\n\nBy the way, pay attention to units: 56kbps = 56 kiloBITS per second = 7 kiloBYTES per second (7 kBps), theoretical maximum speed of dial-up.
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Find out if your local ISP supports Muti-Link accounts. If not,let them know that they can have a market from those without the access to broadband for better connection speeds over rural areas. This is how to setup a home PC and/or network with two modems and a phone. This can increase the speed of dial-up users in remote areas.It requires a minimum of Windows 98 or above, two phone lines, one dial-up connection with two logs-ins allowed. \n\n\n\n\nSteps --\n\nAlmost all computers come with one modem installed. It is best to have matching modems for the best connection speed. This means you will have to get another using a version of Windows or Linux. I have connected at a steady rate of 64K with two Rockwell based 56K modems, at a distance of about 25 miles from a local town. You will also need two separate phone lines for each modem. I am including a list of steps to take to set it up, and dial away. \n\nUnder the Windows Xp version I have tested, I use the dial-up creation dialog. \n\nClick next, and it will ask for what network type. Just leave it at the default setting (connect to the internet). \n\nClick next, and you can choose the type of service you would like to use. I chose to setup my account manually, and that works under both Windows and Linux. \n\nClick next and select connect using dial-up modem. \n\nClick the next button, give the dial-up connection a name which can be anything you care to name it. \n\nClick next, and enter the telephone number needed to access the net. Make sure that it's not a long distance number or toll charges will mount pretty quickly. \n\nClick next and enter the user name and password, which will be used for logging in to their server. Most any service provider uses PAP or CHAP authentication, though you may have to manually setup the primary and secondary IP addresses again depending on the type of service they are willing to provide. \n\nClick next and make sure that the check boxes are setup the way you want them to stay. I chose to allow anyone dial-up access on the computer. \n\nWith a family living in a rural area, it can take over TV time and sometimes make it hard to have time when sharing just one computer. \n\nThe last step in the dialog process is to create it. You can also put a check in the box to have windows create an icon to launch it from the desktop. \n\nMake sure both phones are clear in tone with no noticeable static or wavering noises. \n\nConnect the phone lines to each phone line junction box. Click finish.Now we are ready to edit the dialog for a specific setting. I chose to create an icon to place on the task bar under the quick start menu. \n\nDouble click on the name of the icon created for your connection. You will default to the general tabbed window of another dialog box, it is here that we want to change some settings. \n\nSince I have two computers I have hooked them up using CAT5 cable through a 5 port Switch. Setting up a local address should be in the range of 192.168.0.1 through 192.168.0.10. Although it is a very long subject, each network card should have its own IP address. \n\nNow click on the properties button on the connection dialog. Click on the networking tab in the dialog box and click on the settings button right below the "Type of Dial-up" settings. Another smaller dialog box will appear with three check boxes. Only two should be set and they are: \n\nEnable software compression, and negotiating multi-link for single dial-up. Leave "enable LCP extension" alone unless required by your particular service. \n\nClick the ok button, and if needed now you can setup whatever IP address is used for your connection. Some are best left as default unless you need to setup a separate DNS number such as a static IP address on your local internet service. \n\nUnder the advanced tab of this dialog, you must setup one computer for the gateway dial out. This is the one with the two modems. With the phones connected to the modems g
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It shouldnt be possible...\nTry start run type "cmd" enter, black window up and type "ping www.yahoo.com" enter, if time < 100ms, and no request time out you should be fine.\nCheck cable connect to modem, \ninstall anti-virus software and update it to latest, do full system scan.
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There isn't much you can do, aside from "caching" content but that won't help you at all on webpages that have not been viewed or have changed since the last time you viewed them.\n\nSince Windows XP, you can actually add a second modem to your computer and, provided that you have a second phone line and that your ISP allows it, simultaneously dial-up a second connection, thus do what we call "shotgunning" your connection or effectively doubling the transfer rates.
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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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The cheapes t dial up is Alvantage it is $5.95
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You can use the network connection wizard in the control panel.  You can link them together with a USB to USB.  You didn't mention if you were using, dial up or broadband.  Anyway this link may aid you:\n\nGood Luck
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All those other answers are nice, but the reality is that you need to post more information.\n\nWhat kind of computer do you have?\n    Include CPU type/speed\n    Include RAM type/speed\nThose are the basics, I am assuming you are just dealing with a normal everyday surfers problem, so I will move on, but it can get deep into the motherboard, hard drive and vid card if you are talking about intense interaction over the net.\n\nAlso include the type of connection you have Dialup, Cable, DSL or one of the others.\n\nWith that info someone might be able to guide you, with just what you gave us we are just guessing at best.\n\nJohn B.
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To answer twentieth century refugee's question, modems generally use kilobits.\n\nA 56k modem is (up to) 56,000 bits per second.  However, I've never actuallly seen a connection reach beyond 53k.  Now, if you divide by 8 bits and 1 stop bit (9 bits total,) this gives you up to 5,888 bytes.  However, I've never seen a download on a modem go faster than about 5.6 kB/sec.\n\nLet's try a 256k DSL modem.  Is that faster than a 256kB/sec download speed?  Well, to go from bits to bytes, we still divide by about 9, so 256*1000/9 = up to 28,444 bytes per second.  256kB/sec is only multiplied by 1000 to give us  256,000 bytes per second, which is quite a bit faster.\n\nNote that in other arenas, when converting from bytes to kilobytes, you might be dividing by 1024 instead of 1000.
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Depends on the speed you are getting, but no most 56k modems will get you arong 49k of throughput.