adsl modem speed up software?

[Willherb]

is there any software that unlocks a modem to do any speed it wants
(providing the phone lines has no limitation) IE the speed it was set at was
1MB but the phone wire is capable of 2MB for example. Its just from a
conversation that i heard at work but found strange as i would have thought
that the modem was capable of its maximum speed as part of its hardware not
its software?

Any answer would be interesting.

[Rodney Pont]

It's both really, the hardware and the software has to be able to the
faster speeds. The hardware does the work but the software tells it
what to do. You can't just change the software in the modem to increase
the speed though. The exchange end has to be set to the faster speed
and with BT releasing MAX today that can be up to 8meg on exchanges
that have been enabled for MAX.

The ADSL spec is up to 8meg so I would expect most modems to be able to
run up to that speed without any changes.

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[Ilya Zakharevich]

[A complimentary Cc of this posting was sent to
Willherb
<william...@tesco.net>], who wrote in article <fveXf.27240$Nh7....@newsfe4-win.ntli.net>:

> is there any software that unlocks a modem to do any speed it wants

> (providing the phone lines has no limitation).

Essentially, it's the modem's BIOS. You pay your service provider for
a particular speed, and modem is set up to run at this speed. The
speed is most probably negotiated between the modem and your service
provider, and you might be able to change the BIOS to botch this
negotiation.

Of course, it is a breakage of service agreement (even if you manage
to make it work), and it is immediately noticable from the other
end...

Yours,
Ilya

[Willherb]

cheers i'm changing for a faster conectio at some point in the near future
anyway but i didn't think that the guy was right and I was curios

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[Will Honea]

On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 20:10:58 UTC jbi...@wavecom.net (John Bilbro)
wrote:

> In article <e0k6nq$60b$1...@agate.berkeley.edu>,

> My service is through QWest. The ISP that sold me my DSL modem/router
> did not make any changes to the modem and indeed told me to select any
> of the modems he had in stock. I watched as he set up the modem, which
> had more to do with DHCP options, LAN addresses and PPPoA options than
> anything else. I was told that QWest does the speed restriction thing at
> there end and nothing about the modem has an option for speed selection.

I've got Qwest DSL as well. I bought the Actiontec modem/router that
they use as their "standard, supplied hardware" just to keep things
simple. It has NO provision for speed settings but I keep track of
the church's setup as well and I can tell you from some swapping
around that the speed control is all at the Qwest end - the church
usually has something like 2.4/2.4 mbs while I normally get 640/256
service at home. I say normally because on a forced retrain,
especially at the church, I sometimes get a degraded connect at a
lower speed and have to re-connect to get the speed back up. According
to one of their service types, they do a line analysis at the higer
speeds and adjust to condiditons at connect time. I swap modems back
and forth every so often after firmware updates (the modem runs
Linux/BusyBox) with no changes other than UID/PW.

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Will Honea