I have an internal Softv90 Data Fax Modem but the connection Speed is only 37.2 Kbps. What is the maximum connection speed of this modem and how can the speed be increased? Thanks Danny1234

A quick google search finds the ESS 56TH-PI 56K Soft V.90 modem. The maximum speed of this modem is 53.3K bits per second. To make the modem you have go faster than the 37.2 Kbps you report you will have to get your phone line conditioned. If possible try connecting the modem phone line directly into the wall. Compaq Presario SR1720NX Desktop Computer AT&T SBC Yahoo DSL Home Linksys Router/2 computers

I have never gotten any dial up modem to be fast as it is reported to operate at... What you have is pretty much all you are going to get unless you happen to be plugged into the phone company switching building! In The Matters Of Style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, Stand Like A Rock "People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."

The first thing to do is to contact your phone company and have them check the line. The quality of the line and the distance between you and the local exchange is going to make a lot of difference. The first can be fixed, the second you are stuck with. I regularly get 50kbps on a dial up modem. But then I am less than a mile from the exchange on a line that was only installed four years ago. Stuart

Hi all Thanks for all your posts and to Beachcoffee thanks - plugging the line into the wall increased the speed to 50.6 Kbps. Do you know of any internal or external modem brands that would take full advantage of the ptsn line capability of 128 Kbps? without going down the ISDN route?

Maximum PTSN line speeds are 56kps. 128 Kbps are ISDN speeds and you will an ISDN modem and your line configured for IDSN to get them. Even then it takes two 64kbs circuits combined to get 128 kbps. Stuart