I don't know if this will help or not, but on the Win98SE laptop I'm using, here's what I found: Start>Settings>Control Panel>Modems>Properties>General tab. There's a drop-down menu to select maximum speed, and a tick box below it to select Only connect at this speed. HTH Dave If a turtle doesn't have a shell, is he homeless or naked?

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If you do have a line noise problem, some dial-up modems are a lot better than others dealing with that, so that may explain why the other computer/modem doesn't seem to have a problem. Line noise isn't necessarily obvious to human hearing. Those cheap flat phone cords act like an antenna and pick up electric and electronic noise from nearby devices and can contribute considerably to what line noise is picked up. Use as short a flat cable between your modem and the wall jack as you can manage, and route it as far away from anything that might emit electric or electric noise as you can - e.g. your monitor, fans, electric heaters, flourescent lights, unshielded speakers. If you must use a really long cable, you can lessen line noise picked up that way considerably by rigging up a cord made with standard twisted pair telephone cord, the same as that used in the walls between telephone jacks, connected to the wiring behind the nearest wall jack on one end, and a connection box on the other end than has a telephone jack, and connecting a short flat cable between the box and the modem. If the wiring in the walls is really old it may not have twisted pair wiring (e.g. in my built in 1959 home, for the original line it's three non twisted wires like lamp cord) - in that case, you could try connecting current twisted pair wiring close to where the telephone line enters your building, if possible. If it's a winmodem, sometimes updating the firmware, if available, makes it connect at higher speeds more reliably. (If you're not sure whether it is one, supply the make and model number - at least the latter should be in Device Manager).

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Dave, that's the COM port speed not the modem speed. But I do assume that is exactly what Wm. was looking for when he wanted 'some place in Windows' to adjust speed. Highly unlikely the modem would be so kind as to slow down on it's own just before it kicks the bucket, you've been watching too many movies or something. They don't get sick but they do die. I recently got my dial up to go from 14.4 to 21.6 by complaining to the phone company who finally sent a man out to replace a board some 1.5 miles away among rewiring the phone line entry point into the house which really didn't fix anything. The problem was that lightning had gotten to the board 1.5 miles away. 21.6 is the highest speed you can get out of 20 miles of copper and a 56k modem around here. I'd suspect bad/loose connections somewhere that only you can find. That modem site will have some init strings that might allow you to run the modem with the speaker on for you to listen in on the 'line noise'. That is what kept me down at 14.4, an intermittent crackling sound that became a roar just after a good rain and/or 5:00PM/weekends such that 611 wasn't there to hear it. The roar only really happened after the rain in the latter days of my phone line troubles and it knocked me off the net totally, google wouldn't load after 5 minutes so it's not worth trying any other sites. Phone company just got tired of me calling to complain about yet another lost evening of no internet. Lee

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