Ford Mustang: OT:Modems

AOL's admins have the right to limit your connection at any time you are
sucking down major bandwidth.In this case, 126megs on a dial up router
(theirs) is enough bandwidth for them to sit up and take notice. By
slowing down your connection, they are in fact limiting the amount of
system resources that you are using up...................



Bill S.



Chad wrote:
 

And THAT is ANOTHER reason that AOHell is going bankrupt.

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>AOL's admins have the right to limit your connection at any time you are 


I figured they somehow played a role in it. What gets me is that the years I
have been online (all dialup), I have never come close to downloading at 23
kbs. I have hit 4 and 5 kbs on ocassion, but never that much till today. It
just got me questioning how much I really know about modems and the AOL
service. My areas not scheduled to get broadband till 2005 at the earliest, at
least by BellSouth.

Chad

MOst people dont like satellite data.. (hearsay, PLUS what I know from years
in the biz)

If the fastest you can connect at is 26,4 you are going to be lucky to be
able to get DSL at all.. unless they out in neighborhood repeaters.

Connect speed is a function of distance from the phone co switch, the
condition of house wiring and condition of area witring plant.

If your neighbor connects at a higher speed than you can, suggest running a
new CAT-3 from the demarcation box outside to your computer. BUT.. your old
wiring will still affect the signal quality. Ask phone company for
conditioning coils for the OLD line connection.. this will isolate the losses
from the old Red/Green wires.


Chad opined in news:aol.com:

 

Bill S. wrote: 


Not to mention that going through AOL is going to be slower. It
works well as a proxy for my cable connection though...