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Subject: Re: XL Modem

Author:
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Date Posted: 13:08:04 06/22/00 Thu
In reply to: Miles Goodhew 's message, "Re: XL Modem" on 14:11:55 06/20/00 Tue

I have the same problem with my XL. First, This Flex based modems don't seem to perform as well as X2 based modems.

But I found that if I disconnected the power cord my connecton speed increases conciderably.It seems to pick up AC noice from the converter.

PS I have the driver disk somewhere I will look for it.

> Amit,
> After a lot of research into this topic, my
> conclusions are that the modem is just plain dodgey.
> I've run the modem side-by-side on the same phone line
> with two "chepie" PCI V.90 modems, on two different
> nations' PSTNs, from several exchanges, in both the
> original and flash-upgraded versions.
> Currently the onboard modem connects at about 31kbps,
> and the desktop machine at 51kbps. What's more, even
> when it connects at the lower speed, the Transmonde
> modem appears to drop packets like crazy (I get
> noticeably better throughput from a P100 with a 28k
> modem than I do on my PII-233 Transmonde with the V.90
> modem).
> I think there are two main reasons for the low
> connection and throughput: Cheap parts (i.e. the modem
> module) and internal noise. The modem is situated on
> top of the hard drive bay and underneath the trackpad
> device. The line jack is on the righthand side of the
> case. The phone line makes its way (unshielded and
> untwisted, from waht I recall) from the jack, under
> the floppy drive, past the hard drive connector, CPU
> and primary memory module to the modem module.
> From what I can tell, there was no discrenable
> difference in performance after I flashed the new
> firmware into the modem (The version numbers Windows
> reported did change in the expected manor, so the
> flashing was indeed taking place).
>
> > Could you email me the contents of the modem driver
> > disk....I seemed to have misplaced the disk. Or do
> > you know from where I can download it. I tried to
> > find the Rockwell site, but their modem division was
> > taken over by another company, and there were not any
> > drivers on that site..
>
> If you're still on the air, and still don't have the
> disk, email me at the above address, and I'll see if I
> can get it to you.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Moles.

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