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JellyWorld
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How do you check your internet speed? I've always wanted to know that.
Lemonking
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Lemon, as Asus said, the likely things impacting it is nothing you really have much control over.
It's going to be the quality of your telephone line, I reckon. Have you tried using a telephone on the same line you connect on? Is there any noticable interference? Try calling someone from it and listen for any interference... it could be this that is affecting the connection speed.
The other thing that can affect it is how many telephone devices you have connected to a single telephone line. For example, if you have a fax machine, modem, and two telephones, this could decrease the quality of the whole line when trying to connect to the internet. Try going around removing everything but your modem from the telephone socket.
Over here in the UK we can call our telephone provider and get something called the GAIN increased. I don't know if this can be done over where you are. But calling your telephoe provider would be a good idea anyway. At the end of the day that modem should be connecting at 40kbps to 56kbps and if it isn't then they need to sort it out.
It's going to be the quality of your telephone line, I reckon. Have you tried using a telephone on the same line you connect on? Is there any noticable interference? Try calling someone from it and listen for any interference... it could be this that is affecting the connection speed.
The other thing that can affect it is how many telephone devices you have connected to a single telephone line. For example, if you have a fax machine, modem, and two telephones, this could decrease the quality of the whole line when trying to connect to the internet. Try going around removing everything but your modem from the telephone socket.
Over here in the UK we can call our telephone provider and get something called the GAIN increased. I don't know if this can be done over where you are. But calling your telephoe provider would be a good idea anyway. At the end of the day that modem should be connecting at 40kbps to 56kbps and if it isn't then they need to sort it out.
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I dont know why you're complaining about your 56k. You may be able to get cable or something from some random company.
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When I used my AOL dial up years ago I never went over 36k, and that pissed me off. Definatley get cable asap. Life has been much better since I have been getting 800kbs+ download speeds. It can sometimes be steady at 2 megs on empty servers woot. But yeah, you probably wont get much faster than 30 somthing kbs on a 56k line.
