RE: dial-up vs. broadband
- From: Chris Skarstad <toonhead5@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 10:49:29 -0500
this could explain some of the people's sluggishness issues with JAWS? Some
people complained of JAWS stuttering and if you're using a win modem it
makes perfect sense.
It's not a fix for all sluggishness issues of course but it's a start.
At 08:33 AM 4/26/2005, you wrote:
>Yes, some modems (many modems), especially those built into the mother
>boards of pcs, use a sound chip to "simulate" a modem (these are often
>called "win" modems). This takes a lot of cpu time to drive the sound
>card to make it simulate the sounds a modem would make.
>
>You can dramatically decrease the load on a system that has such a modem
>by buying a hardware modem card and installing it, and disabling your
>"win" modem. You'll find in such cases your system is perfectly
>responsive while doing downloads, and as a small side benefit, such a
>hardware modem is usable by dos applications (while a "win" modem is
>not).
>
>A hardware modem card can often be found for $20 or so.
>
>Hth,
>
>
>
>Chip Orange
>Database Administrator
>Florida Public Service Commission
>
>Chip.Orange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>(850) 413-6314
>
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> > -----Original Message-----
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> > [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Marsha Anderson
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 7:20 AM
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> > Subject: Re: dial-up vs. broadband
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> > Hi
> > If you want to downloadsome programs via dial-up, it=20
> > could take over five hours. My sound was effected when I=20
> > recently needed to use dial-up. I think this is what caused=20
> > the wierd sounds I mentioned before.
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> > Marsha Anderson=20
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