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First, take the time to laugh at my ass for still having dialup.

Anyway. My comp used to connect at around 48 kbps [before harddrive failure.]

With XP reloaded and everything, and modem drivers reinstalled, it now caps at 28 kpbs. Constantly. I know it's an issue with my computer and not the phone lines as the fried comp I'm using right now connected at 37 kbps.


Question is this... doesn't the 28 cap mean there's a conflict? Like, AOL is trying to use the wrong modem or whatever.

[Yes, I am fully aware AOL is complete garbage, but I don't have a choice.]

gb2AOL

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on a related note, redcream is the most hated person on this board, yet also one of the handfull that actually fucking help.

Discuss.

>>3
Full credit to the gigantic faggot... annoys the educated and gives bad advice to the retarded. Pretty effective troll if you ask me.

Hasn't had AOL the option of connecting via normal dial up networking instead of via the AOL software for years? Configure your modem right in all the appropriate Windows dialogs and use that. See if it helps.

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Yeah, there's a dialer. Doesn't always fucking work, though.

Also, problem seems to be that dell didn't send the backups of drivers for my NIC card. Fucking dell

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I'm not going to laugh at your dialup.  I use dialup myself.  Broadband is at least double the cost and I can't afford that.

Anyway, try changing the access number you dial in to.  Your reloading of stuff might have caused the AOL software to default to a 28.8K access number.

Check the settings on the modem's COMx: (communications or serial) port.  It may have defaulted to a low value for some reason.  Set it to the highest value that you find in the list.  (V.92 and the like won't have such settings and will default to the highest connection speed it can negotiate.)

Let us know what you find out.

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If I ever get ahold of you, I'll take a knife, carve out the bones of your forearms, and jam them into your eye sockets and ear holes.  Then, I'm going to get creative.

Haha I just upgraded to 10mbps 2 hours ago

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>try changing the access number you dial in to

Tried multiple ones. My first thought was that I was simply dialing an access number that was too far away physically to get a decent connection. I've gone through over ten access numbers multiple times; I keep getting the same speed: 28.8.

Checked how AOL viewed the modem, and checked the speed it was trying to send; both were normal. And for future reference, the modem is a V.92.


As I said earlier, though, it turns out that the problem isn't with the modem, it's with the NIC card [...I thought it was the same thing? As in, isn't the modem ON the NIC card?]


Bottom line is that my computer can identify and use the modem, but it can't find the NIC card. The "network adapters" category won't even show up in device manager. Something involving the word ethernet shows up in the "other" category [the NIC card] but doesn't know what it is.

tl;dr: I need to find the driver for my NIC card. That should fix it.

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Sigh.

Fucking AOLers.

No, your goddamn modem isn't "on" your fucking NIC card.  Look at the back of your computer.  Unless you have some really fucked up weird piece of hardware, you should have 2 slots, 1 that has 2 phone jacks (that's the MODEM) and another that has something that looks like a bigger jack (RJ45 - that's the NIC).  Most likely you are using some cheap OEM system and the RJ45 jack will not be in a slot, but somewhere near the serial/paralell/onboard video ports (and I know you have onboard video).

Anyway, they are separate devices.

Now, Windows will install something called "Dial-Up Adapter" in your network adapters.  This is so programs written to use network cards, which is like 95% of all internet programs, can just pretend your modem is a slow NIC.

I think your best thing at this point is to utilize any recovery options (F10 usually) in your computers BIOS and reset back to when you bought it.

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Just wondering, why can't you dish out another 5 bucks a month to get Cable or DSL? Are you out in the country where no company wants to run their wires through? Or are you just Jewish? Fucking upgrade to cable and make your life a little easier.

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>Fucking AOLers.

DON'T INSULT ME I'LL GET THE INTERNET POLICE ON YOU

Dude I may be an idiot and a fuckin' newb at this shit, but I'm not THAT stupid.

>Most likely you are using some cheap OEM system and the RJ45 jack will not be in a slot, but somewhere near the serial/paralell/onboard video ports

Yeah, it's right under the the mouse port.

>and I know you have onboard video
God, I hope so. Either that or I'm trippin' the dorkiest hallucination ever fucking had.

>Now, Windows will install something called "Dial-Up Adapter" in your network adapters

...uhh... no it didn't. Assuming you're refering to something that would appear under the "network adapters" heading in device manager, I mean. Only thing under that heading is the NIC card.

>I think your best thing at this point is to utilize any recovery options (F10 usually) in your computers BIOS and reset back to when you bought it.

I'll give it a shot, but seeing as how this is a largely blank
harddrive with a rewly reinstalled XP, I'm under the impression it's more of a driver issue or somethin'. I 'unno.

ohfuck would updating the BIOS pull this shit



Question. On the modem with the two jacks... what's the difference in that again? I mean the one with a pic of a phone is for an actual phone line, or... whatever. Also, would having the cable in the wrong port pull this shit? 'Cause it doesn't seem to matter which port it goes in on my other comp...


>>12
Shell out a bit moar cash for about the same speed? Nah.

...Also [largely] I'm not the one paying for the service; not my call anyway. Which is also why I'm using fuckin' AOL; I wouldn't be usin' this shit otherwise.

Nope, nothing in BIOS involving the restoration of settings.

HELP ME WINDOWS AUTOUPDATE FEATURE, YOU'RE MY ONLY HOPE

;;

el bumpo the magnificoooooooooooo

>>14
>Shell out a bit moar cash 100 times the speed? Nah.

Fix'd

>>13
One of the jacks should be labeled PHONE, the other LINE (they may not actually be labeled)  Plugging it in the wrong port will make AOL bitch about not being a dial tone.

LINE goes from the computer to wall.  PHONE is from your phone to the computer. 

If you don't have a "Dial-Up Adapter" in your device manager, I think you've stumbled on the problem.  Try uninstalling your modem  drivers from the device manager, do a registry clean with a program like RegSeeker, and reinstall.

If you don't have modem drivers anywhere in your device manager, you need to find and install them in the first place.

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>One of the jacks should be labeled PHONE, the other LINE (they may not actually be labeled)

There's a little picture of a phone by one of them.  Nothing on the other.

>Plugging it in the wrong port will make AOL bitch about not being a dial tone.

Actually I don't have a problem with this on either computer. Apparently AOL loves to take it in both holes.


>If you don't have a "Dial-Up Adapter" in your device manager, I think you've stumbled on the problem.  Try uninstalling your modem  drivers from the device manager, do a registry clean with a program like RegSeeker, and reinstall.


Rgr.

>If you don't have modem drivers anywhere in your device manager, you need to find and install them in the first place.

I do have 'em. It was like the first thing I reinstalled.

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Hello, Ondore.

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Hello, friend.

>>8 Check the settings on the modem's COMx: (communications or serial) port.  It may have defaulted to a low value for some reason.  Set it to the highest value that you find in the list.  (V.92 and the like won't have such settings and will default to the highest connection speed it can negotiate.)
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