Bad Modem?
Mullet
Join Date: 2003-04-28 Member: 15910Members, Constellation
Join Date: 2003-04-28 Member: 15910Members, Constellation
<div class="IPBDescription">56k modem acts like 28k...</div> I was just wondering what you guys thought about this....My modem (AOpen FM56-PM) is a 56k modem. Since I've had it, It never connects at more than 26,000 bps....and when I test the speed of it (dslreports or bandwidth tests) my down connection is 23.4 or 23.5 every single time. My friends who live no more than 1-5 miles away get like 40kb down and connect at around 38,000 bps. I tried the oldest drivers to the newest and nothing changed at all.....Any ideas?
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Have u ever played on a 56k modem?? im guessing no a 56k modem v 90 will get anywere from a 160-300+ ping depending on drivers connection distance and your ISP, a v92 modem if supported by an ISP and a close server will get a 140-300+ ping due to the more bandwith allowed for uploads and better data compression.
Anyway have u tryed altering your windows settings?? thier are some programs around to do this for you if u dont like to mess with the reg files and system files.
Also have u had your line tested by your telephone service they can tell u your max upload and download speeds some older lines are not so good for the internet.
Have u also tryed a diffrent modem? a good way to see if it makes a diffrence would be to lend an external one of 1 of your m8s if they have one.
Just some websites for u to have a look at.
<a href='http://www.56k.com/' target='_blank'>http://www.56k.com/</a>
<a href='http://www.modemsite.com/56k/index.asp' target='_blank'>http://www.modemsite.com/56k/index.asp</a>
This one is worth a read...
<a href='http://www.modemsite.com/56k/speedup.asp' target='_blank'>http://www.modemsite.com/56k/speedup.asp</a>
.... *tries not to explode*
I play on a 31200k connection and ping 400.. *anger rising*
Anyways..you need an init string
<a href='http://club.aopen.com.tw/forum/viewmessage.asp?forumID=11&MessageID=41485' target='_blank'>http://club.aopen.com.tw/forum/viewmessage...MessageID=41485</a>
read this and do everything this guy did. Would prolly help.
56K SHOULD get pings around 200-500 thats sorta the 'acceptable' range
RAPTOR, cintact your isp or make sure you conect to servers near you (<a href='http://www.udpsoft.com/eye2' target='_blank'>ASE</a>)
I speak of 6 years of dealing with this in western colorado <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
56K SHOULD get pings around 200-500 thats sorta the 'acceptable' range
RAPTOR, cintact your isp or make sure you conect to servers near you (<a href='http://www.udpsoft.com/eye2' target='_blank'>ASE</a>) <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
theres nothing acceptable about a 200-500 ping as long as client side prediction blows all that away. After the 500th time of seeing a fade hit empty space, watch blood fly from said empty space and then dying, you start to realise that at least without lag compression you arent shooting ghosts.
First thing, you have a software based modem and most of those are fine for browsing the internet but utterly suck for gaming. The reason is there are two main chips needed for modem communications, the controller chip and the DSP. In many modern software PCI modems these chips are removed and replaced with software emulation. PCTel HSP, Rockwell/connexant HCF, Intel HAM, Lucent/Agere LTwin are all **** childs of this type of technology. Because your CPU is now doing the job of communicating via this software emulation it now has to fight your game, the sound card, and your graphics card for attention from the CPU to process the communication stuff. This leads to increased latency (ie sucky pings). Experience wise, when I see someone having trouble connecting or staying connected it is one of these types of modems 99% of the time.
There are hardware based external modems available from Zoom and USrobotics but they don't cost $15-$20 like your current modem. They cost around $60-$90, you can buy them at Staple, officemax and many independant computer stores. These modems handle all the communication themselves, the only thing they need from the computer is to know when to dial, what number to dial and when to hang up. In this case you get what you pay for.
As for your connection speed. There might not be anything you can do about that. 56k connections don't typically work past 4-5 miles from a telephone company central office. The 4-5 miles is measured by the length of the wire, not how the crow flies. I've seen in the past where there was a large coil of wire left in someone's basement and just cliping the line off at the spool and resplicing it fixed his connection, but that's kinda rare, anyhow I'm getting off subject.
There might also be something in your area called a SLC, let me explain. When you have a phone line hooked up to your house you typically have 64kb of bandwidth from that line. Assuming you were within range of the Central Office (CO) and made a connection to a 56k capable ISP your modem would use 56k of that for data transmission and an additional 8kb for overhead signaling. FCC regulations require that 56k modems don't transfer at more then 53,333 to prevent crosstalk over the lines so that is really the best you can do. I have seen 54,667 connections from time to time, but not too often.
Now if you live in an area that is newly developed or is rapidly growing it may need a lot of new phone lines to be brought in. This is expensive to lay down new copper so some phone companies employ a device called a SLC. What an SLC does is cut the bandwidth from one 64k line and split it into two 32k lines. they now have twice as many lines without having to backhaul new wire in. Your connection still requires the 8k of signaling but now you only have 32k to play with, 32k - 8 = ~24k.
Take what you will from this and leave the rest. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
Now if you live in an area that is newly developed or is rapidly growing it may need a lot of new phone lines to be brought in. This is expensive to lay down new copper so some phone companies employ a device called a SLC. What an SLC does is cut the bandwidth from one 64k line and split it into two 32k lines. they now have twice as many lines without having to backhaul new wire in. Your connection still requires the 8k of signaling but now you only have 32k to play with, 32k - 8 = ~24k.
Take what you will from this and leave the rest. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
so yea, im f-ed. gg