"Jim Adney" wrote in message ...
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 08:45:01 -0400 "RichK" wrote:

"Jim Adney" wrote

What do people out there get these days? Is switching local telco
providers likely to make any difference? Is there any chance that the
14.4k is just a smoke screen that I need to poke thru a bit to get
better results.

We all had modem problems at one time. Find out from your telco TS what is
the distnace from your house to their equipment. Overk 10K feet will not
give you good connection.

Hmmm, do you think they will just tell me this?

I know it worked well before, but something has changed. They could have
re-routed the lines, although unlikely.

The first drop in speed occurred when they replaced a broken wire into
my house. They replaced a very old single pair (looked like large zip
cord, with copper coated steet wires in it) with a multiple pair
cable, even though I'm only using a single pair. The service man told
me that this was what they were doing everywhere, so that the next
time someone wanted to upgrade the wires would already be available.

If this splitter was put on the drop wire into your house,
that's likely the cause of your problem. You should call
your local telco and request they remove the splitter.
Tell them you're unable to get 9600bps service for faxes
(white lie) and they'll be legally obligated to remove it.