Re: [PCWorks] Lag on dial-up
- From: "Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin" <PCWorks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pcworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 07:51:52 -0500
It might also could be something other than AV software
(firewall or other anti-malware).
There's still a dial-up forum at
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/dialup so asking there should
help. There's also info at http://www.dslreports.com/faq/dial
and
http://www.tschmidt.com/writings/POTS_Modem_Impairments.htm,
and I believe this is the dial-up area at
http://www.techspot.com/tweaks/winxp_modem/index.shtml.
External models are hardware, if they're not USB. So that
pretty much means serial. There may be some external USB
hardware modems, can't recall. If he has any ISA slots on the
mobo most of those were hardware modems and there's still some
of those around, and there still should be "a couple or so" PCI
hardware modems.
-Clint
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Kaulback"
He has a 2.4ghz Athlon cpu and 1gb ram so he has enough power
for the
winmodem.
It's getting hard to find hardware modems now, but until
broadband is
more available I have to find one for him.
And I will try the av trick too.
Thanks Clint.
Peter Kaulback
On 10/7/2010 7:12 AM, Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin wrote:
> I haven't been on dial-up in so long I've forgotten
> everything
> about it, so all I've got is try and disable the AV software.
> While mine loads (either at startup or enabling it after I've
> shut it down), there's a really long wait and I can't click
> ANYTHING during that time. But it's not 3 minutes.
>
> Is the CPU sufficient enough for a WinModem? Has it always
> done this or this event recent?
> -Clint
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter Kaulback"
>
> A friend with an emachines computer is experiencing up to a 3
> minute lag
> when he dials a connection through the winmodem. Nothing
> responds and
> there is no traffic in or out yet there is 100% cpu usage
> during this
> lag period. The computer is about 5 years old and is equipped
> with xp home.
>
> Incidentally, if any browser is used to start the connection
> it
> won't
> come up until after the lag breaks.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Peter Kaulback
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