# Looking for modem upgrade

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 16, 2002, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-modem-upgrade/103854 "2002-04-16T00:58:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![justwannano](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7ab992/32.png) [@justwannano](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justwannano)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2002, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-modem-upgrade/103854/1 "2002-04-16T00:58:33Z")

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Looking for upgrade for motorola 56K voice modem dated oct 98 .

My ISP has recommended upgrading my modem as a start to troubleshooting a problem with wildly fluctuating connection times.  
For a short time this afternoon I was hooked up at 4800bps. Thats right only 2 zeros.  
It can fluctuate anywhere from 11K to 44k.  
Anyone know where I can find a free upgrade to a newer version?

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**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2002, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-modem-upgrade/103854/2 "2002-04-16T01:15:47Z")

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[www.driverguide.com](http://www.driverguide.com) would be good place to start

USER NAME is: drivers  
PASSWORD is: all  
FWIW upgrading your v.90 modem to the latest driver set is not all that likely to solve a connection rate issue that severe. Line quality may also be a place to look or the ISP might simply have some flaky modems in the dial in bank.  
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