compresion on a dial up modem

[ManTra]

I've just recently bought a new computer but i'm having trouble with the modem. It connects at a different speed everytime i connect, most of the time it is a lot slower than the steady 52kbs i used to get with my old comp. I've noticed that when i look at the "status" once i'm connected the compression for both sent and recieved is around 40 to 50 percent. With my old comp it used to be no higher than 1%. I have tried disabling compression but it seems to have no effect, it still shows 40 to 50 percent compression. My modem is a Lucent Win modem. Is compression a bad thing? Is there any other settings i change that might help? Thanks

[beedubaya]

Win modems just get bad speeds. I just threw out my Lucent Win Modem last night. Take your modem of your old PC and put it in your new one.

[nak-1]

There are many things that can effect a phone line modem.

It is an analoge device that relies on the signal quality it recieves from the phone line. Lower quality means more signal distortion which means more transmission errors which means a lower overall throughput of data.

You could try asking your telephone line provider to turn up the gain on your line. I know that you used to be able to do this here in the UK. It it will depend on what technology your local telephone exchange uses.

Lower gain used to mean that the signal to noise ratio was worse and you could only achieve certain bandwidths.

This experience is from a long time ago however and may no longer be applicable.

Compression in modem technology is a very good thing. It allows you to send more data with less, this means it increases your theoretical bandwidth without having to change the actual bandwidth of the line.

Or it could be a crappy modem as previously advised.