Re: (PM) Compaq Presario 56k Modems

Rick Rountree (rick@dundee.net)
Wed, 26 Nov 1997 00:25:19 -0500

At 10:42 PM 11/25/97 -0600, David Glynn wrote:
>At 10:31 PM 11/25/97 -0500, you wrote:
>>Greetings,
>>
>>I hooked up a customer tonight running a Compaq Presario k56flex modem
>>running firmware v1.3.07. The best speed we could get out of it was 26.4k
>>dialing into any of my PM3 POPs. <snip>
>
>Hrumph, yeah, I've seen that. Do they have two phone lines? Around us it
>usually means that their phone line has been multiplexed, and like it or
>not, that is maxed out on a multi-plexed line. Had one user get a second
>line for his modem, only to watch his connects drop from fat and happy 44k,
>to a consistent 26.4k. GTE says tough beans, that's the way we do 'em.
>

Hmmm....he does have a second line (and I tried both of them). New housing
development and GTE land too... I'll check into this and see what's going
on. Thanks for the tip!

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