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Non-Tech : MB TRADING -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: William W. Dwyer, Jr. who wrote (736)	8/13/1998 7:34:00 PM
From: vadim	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 7382

Hi, Bill I'm on the east coast (NJ) and have the same problem with Bell Atlantic. I couldn't get more than 28.8k out of my 56k USR modem, no matter what ISP i used. I didn't want to make my phone co. fix it because i was thinking about getting ISDN. The only problem with ISDN is it gets a little expensive if you use it a lot and i do(phone co. charges + ISP + second ISP to backup the first + ISDN modem + installation fees, "cabling and wiring" and so on), although it's still a good option. But now I found a couple of local ISPs that support "ShotGun" and will probably have Bell Atlantic fix my lines, because it's a hellovalot cheaper and almost the same speed :) so it's not just you......there's a lot of people out there with the same problem - phone lines :) and BTW, thanx - your post and guys answers helped me a lot. vadim

To: William W. Dwyer, Jr. who wrote (736)	8/13/1998 9:31:00 PM
From: GREATMOOD	Respond to of 7382

David, You're not alone. I can't get more that 28.8k out of one of my computers using Sprint Earthlink. My phone company is Bell Atlantic. I tried flashing the modem with the upgrade from Dell's upgrade page, but I couldn't do it because the V-90 DOS based upgrade utility gave me a message that it needed 32-bits to flash, and the Dell technician was stumped! GM