weird dial up download thing

Hi, unhappy

This site has some good information and tools for measuring your upload and download speeds :)

Browse around, there is other useful stuff on the site as well

http://www.pcpitstop.com/internet/Bandwidth.asp

EDIT: Further thoughts.................whilst you are downloading there must be a fair bit of handshaking going on? which means that you are uploading as well. So if the computer sending the packets is not getting acknowledgements fast enough, it will presumably slow down to a rate where it is?

Also, your 56.6 modem is asynchronous, in that it will only upload to a maximum of 33.6. I seem to recall that the theoretical maximum upload/download for a 56.6 modem is around 64kbps, so maybe there is some sort of load balancing going on within your modem?

IIRC 28.8 modems did not display this? and were certainly synchronous, and had a total capacity of less than 64kbps. Also I am using dial-up ADSL now, and find that the downloads tend to accellerate to begin with then settle down, rather than the peak and rapid decline when the download starts.

The reason it starts at a much higher speed is the way downloads work. Once you click a link to download, it starts to download the file. Then it brings up a save to dialog box where you select where you want to save the file. Of course, the files is already being saved to your disk in a temp location. Then once you click save it starts computing download speed. At this point you may already have 50-100k. This means when the clock finally starts, you've downloaded 50k in 0 seconds. Of course once it starts ticking this evens itself out to the real download speed.

use it to speed up your internet connection:

http://www.cbs-soft.com/speedconnect.htm

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Originally posted here by ©opy®ight
Even if it's displaying 20-30 its most likely still downloading at 5-6, when i had dial-up 9 kb/s was the maximum. Thats the normal speed for dial-up. You could try Download Accelerator (thats what i used) http://www.speedbit.com/DAP7/Default.asp?

btw: DAP has spyware so i would scan with ad-aware, spybot etc after installing it. Thats what i did and didnt have problem after that, worked fine.

thanks WiskiC for reminding me of the spyware in it.

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I'll agree........... IT IS JUST SHOWING............................. Dial ups have slow dl speed...................

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every time i start a download w/ dial up, the first few seconds it has incredible speed (for dial up) around 20-30 kB/sec. after few seconds it settles on 3-4 kB/sec and just continues like that. does anyone know why does this happen and is there any way to maintain the speed on around its original throttle.

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It doesnt matter what dial up ISP you have. FCC regulates that the highest connection speed (in the USA) you can get through a standard rj-11 (phone line) is 53.3bps even though your using a 56k modem you will NEVER connect at 56K. Now you could try using an ini string for your dial up modem. These help a lot. For example if you have a 56k v.92 lucent modem you can enter AT&F+MS=V90 this will allow the modem to connect at the fastest speed possible while using the v.90 protocol, also could even use the Modem on Hold feature that comes with v.92 modem (if your running v.92) I used to be a dial up technical support specialist for the ISP I work for since 2002 now do broadband connections. If you need any help in programming the modem just me know . using an INI string would fix this issue.

I agree with ikalo, it is just the buffering thing that make it as if it was faster at start. It is base on the amount of data written to the hardisk/ amount of time taken. First few block usually big and within short period of time.

I don't really believe in download speedup program. I believe for these program to really works, some kind of compression have to take place (or proxy). The tranmitting end must compress the data before sending while your speedup program understand how to decompress it and save it to a file. Unless it is using bit-torrent type of proxy.

Computernerd22

where would i put this ini string

hi unhappy, try this one too atx0s10=254. This will prevent you from being disconnected.

goto CP > Phones and Modems > Modems Tab > Select your modem and click properties > Advanced tab > look for "Extra initialization commands" and enter the string there > Click ok.

Note: You may need a restart.

Cheers

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hi unhappy, try this one too atx0s10=254. This will prevent you from being disconnected.

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Care to elaborate ? What does it do ? i never tried those so i dont know much of the meaning.

I know how you feel i had that same problem and now i can maintain my speed burst by using a cable modem.