X2 access from Greenville, S.C.
Geoffrey Heriot
Has anyone gotten X2 speeds from Greenville, S.C.? I have tried the USR
line test -it says my line is X2 capable. I cannot connect at anything
greater than 31200. I have sent numerous messages to and from USR and
IBMNET. No one has any real suggestions.
My machine is a 200mghz Pentium with 32 megs of RAM, 512K cache, Iomega Jaz
installed as a backup, 2.1 gig hard drive. I run W95 DUN. The device
manager shows a 56000 internal modem installed. Modem is on COM4, IRQ3. (I
had to manually install it -plug and play didn't work) I have the latest
ROM version for the Sportster modem. I have also made sure to copy the
needed inf files to the Windows\inf subdirectory. I have also tried the
1800 line that IBMNET has -no luck here either-couldn't connect at anything
beyond the 31200.
Any comments would be welcome.You can either post to a newsgroup or send me
some email at ghe...@ibm.net
Thanks!!
Geoff Heriot
Martin Owensby
IBM truly great at times.
If you are on Eastside past Hudson Rd or around Furman (29617) I think
you may have trouble,from what I have seen and heard
Downtown,Taylors and Donaldson get X2
Just a small sample I have seen. A dozen or so
Austin Younts
I live outside of Fountain Inn. I've also done the line test with USR and
it said I could get X2 but probably not at full speed. The best I can
usually connect at is 26.4 - every once in a while it connects faster. I'm
not sure exactly how fast because it says 115,200. I imagine that's the
compression causing it to say that but it sure is fast when it does
connect. But it hardly ever does. Here's the interesing thing though. If I
call an IBM X2 pop long distance it works every time. 115.2 every time I
connect. We have wide area calling (flat fee for local long distance) on
one of our lines so I plugged the modem into that line and called
Spartanburg... 26.4 - I plugged into a regular line where Spartanburg is
long distance and it got 115.2. So it looks like the only way to get X2
from here is to call long distance. Oh well... it was a nice idea:-)
If anyone has a solution for this please let me know. I have tried the one
about adding 1 and the area code to the local number but I just get an
error message then ("we're sorry, 1 or the area code does not need to be
dialed .....etc...etc").
Austin
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