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From: Paul on 6 May 2008 16:13
just-me(a)myplace.com wrote:
> I have a dialup ISP and the connection recently got very slow.
> Although I pay them a premium price for their service, their support
> is terrible. I have run every test on my computer and modem and
> everything seems fine. I had the phone company call me and say the
> phone line seems ok, although they said that they can not be sure
> without coming to my house and running tests, which would be costly
> for me. I still think it's my ISP, and they will never admit to being
> wrong, even when they were completely broken down, and I verified
> this, they insisted it was my computer. I intend to begin looking for
> another ISP, but at the moment, I am looking for a free ISP to connect
> to, so I can test what speed I get. I know they exist, but where? I
> dont care if it's long distance, since I just plan to call once or
> twice to see what speeds I get. A half hour of LD calls will be much
> cheaper than the phone company wants to test my line.
>
> If you know of anything, please post the URL.
>
> Thanks
>

I can tell you what happened with my modem. My dialup connect rate dropped to
about half its normal rate. I replaced the telephone wiring in the house, starting
at the demarcation point in the basement. I now have a single cable leading from
the basement to the computer room, and all other jacks and wiring have been
disconnected. Both ADSL and dialup returned to normal, after the corroded
phone jacks were removed from the situation. I have a friend with a similar
experience, where the wire was bad where it passes through the foundation wall
of his home.

Some numbers you can try as test sites. What you'd be doing here, is noting
what your modem connects at, and not trying to login to their service. V.90
is the ITU standard, while K56Flex and X2 are the Rockwell and USR proprietary
standards that led up to V.90 becoming a standard.

http://www.modemsite.com/56k/trouble4.asp

There is some background information here, on how 56K works. Transmission from
the ISP to you, in that case, is digital ("perfect") until it hits the
final telco central office that drives your copper pair. Which means the
download performance should be more consistent from one ISP to another,
for 56K services. It would depend on the characteristics of your copper pair
to the central office, as to how much of 56K you get. (The text below figure 2
explains it a bit.) It'll be interesting to see how much your connect rate
differs from one ISP test to another.

http://web.archive.org/web/20000511050310/http://www.3com.com/technology/tech_net/white_papers/500659.html

Paul
From: Dave on 6 May 2008 07:20

<just-me(a)myplace.com> wrote in message
news:phe024dfsi2k1181gn9h9rduhim57v73is(a)4ax.com...
>I have a dialup ISP and the connection recently got very slow.
> Although I pay them a premium price for their service, their support
> is terrible. I have run every test on my computer and modem and
> everything seems fine. I had the phone company call me and say the
> phone line seems ok, although they said that they can not be sure
> without coming to my house and running tests, which would be costly
> for me. I still think it's my ISP, and they will never admit to being
> wrong, even when they were completely broken down, and I verified
> this, they insisted it was my computer. I intend to begin looking for
> another ISP, but at the moment, I am looking for a free ISP to connect
> to, so I can test what speed I get. I know they exist, but where? I
> dont care if it's long distance, since I just plan to call once or
> twice to see what speeds I get. A half hour of LD calls will be much
> cheaper than the phone company wants to test my line.
>
> If you know of anything, please post the URL.
>
> Thanks

Yeah, how about Budget Dialup? It is not free, but it's prepaid and cheap.
I used to use them sometimes and they were OK. It looks like they offer a
5-hour free trial, too. -Dave

http://www.budgetdialup.com/html/get.htm

From: Man-wai Chang ToDie (33.6k) on 6 May 2008 07:17
> If you know of anything, please post the URL.

Just google "network speed test"

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From: John Doe on 6 May 2008 10:23
"Man-wai Chang ToDie (33.6k)" <toylet.toylet(a)gmail.com> wrote:

>> If you know of anything, please post the URL.
>
> Just google "network speed test"

You might be talking about a website, not an ISP.










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