I’m having hookup problems when connecting to the net.
I live in the country and phone service isn’t really great.
I had better qualify that statement. We always have a phone line but the quality of the hookup sometimes drops to 9.6 kbps.
The tel co has been working on the problem and most of the time we have 33k or better. But… the connection to ISP often is broken. Sometimes I just get a connection when it craps out. Kinda frustrating.
Anyway I need a V90 modem. I think. This one is the original Motorola 56K modem. I see several on ebay and they are quite cheap.
Anyone have experience with modems?
Your comments would be helpful.
Most often these problems are related to the line, not the modem itself. Still, as reasonable as they are it might be worth it for your peace of mind to try a different modem. If you’re shopping on Ebay, look for 56k US Robotics Courier modems. These are widely considered to be the best modems made, and cost a lot of money new (they were targeted to business customers). You can now get them on Ebay quite cheap.
If the pipe is shit, it doesn’t make any difference what’s at the end of it.
You can spend a fortune on the best modem in the world and your connection will still be no faster nor more reliable than your phone line. The speed and reliability of a connection is determined by its weakest link.
Try to get a better telco, if you can. (I know. You can’t. I empathize.)
This guy won’t be able to check this page untill 2025. By then modems will be dirt cheap!
Sometimes I wire my modem directly to the phone box outside to test it cause the phone jack gets crud on it from the ocean water in the air in my area.
Wow, I didn’t realize used Couriers were so cheap. Take Cooper’s advice and get one of those. It will give you the best shot at a good connection.
Cooper is right. My fiance’s parents live in BFE. Their telephone lines are the old copper cableing. The best connection speed they get is about 10k. A new modem may not solve your connection speed problem.
Have you concidered investing in a wireless connection such as a tower of satellite?
Are they trying to solve it or just trying to figure out what the problem is? I ask because my understanding was that, as someone who also lives out in the country, my connection speed could only be 28.8 max. because of either extra digital to analog converters or whatever is used to “amplify” the signal in order for it to reach at all. The phone company wouldn’t be able to do much for me, other than build a phone switch box just for me in one of the tomato fields next door. And a faster, external modem would still have the 28.8 max as its limit.
But since you say you can get 33k or better sometimes, try this checklist:
http://troubleshooting.midmo.com/modems/modems_lcs_checklist.html