Slow modem speed

I have an A60 173 and the inbuilt modem 56KB runs very slowly.
Typically a download of a driver from Toshiba's website will run at 5KB/s.
I have read the user manual and have set all I can for optimum speed with no change being effective.
Is this a fault with the modem?

There's nothing wrong with your modem in fact the best you will
ever get out of a dial-up connection is about 5.4kb/sec and upload
speed of 3kb/sec. Modem speeds are quoted in kbits/sec not kb/sec.
So the theoretical speed looks something like this: baud rate / 10 / 1024
8 + 2 bits (10) used for the rs232 protocol or COM port.
A 56000 baud would be approximately 5.46kb/sec (raw data).
However this speed is reduced due to the nature of internet packets
because each packet needs a header and will reduce the overall download
rate. With packet compression techniques this figure may go up or down
depending on what you are downloading.
Hope this helps.
Richard S.

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I think you need to adjust the wireless settings of your Router, The wireless settings on your Router must have been setup to its default that's the reason you are receiving low signal strength on your PS3.
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Click on the Wireless tab
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Please make a note of Wireless Network Name (SSID) as this is the Network Identifier...
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Click on the Sub tab under Wireless > Wireless Security...
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Time Capsule with an Airport Extreme bridge resulted in slow LAN speeds

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Solved!
Go to Solution.

dpnowak wrote:
This suggestion did not work. I tried to isolate the problem by optimizing the router's wireless settings. I used the 2.4GHz, set the radio band to standard 20Mhz then set the standard channel to 9. The laptop had the same slow wireless speeds as the iPad did.
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Very slow upload speed via infinity 2 (business) unlimited after phone line fix (street cabinet) ?
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I have been without internet for a week. Verizon finally fixed the problem yesterday afternoon and my internet service was restored but now I have super slow DSL speeds. 0.36 dowload & 0.54upload.
I am tired of calling tech support and being told to reboot my computer, modem, yadda yadda. There is something else going on here and need to figure out if it is with the modem itself or the line. All the line tests the tech support people have done come back normal.
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The modem is old, GT704WG from verizon. I am thinking about going out and buying a new one but don't want to do that if it is not going to fix the problem. It just seems odd that last week internet speed was fine and now it is slow as hell.
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I've spent more time on the phone this week with the unhelpful verizon people then I spend all year talking to my relatives and I really don't want to call them back and sit on the phone for another 45 min to an hour.
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I appreciate you taking the time to answer my post, however your tools do nothing to tell me what is going on nor am I going to schedule yet another repair.
This past week when I had a "repair" scheduled, I was told they would be out on wednesday to fix our problem. No time frame was given for when this repair would take place. My retired father waited at the house the entire day only to have the repair man show up at 4:30pm who told us it was too late in the day to wait 5 min for us to move some boxes out of the closet that were over our crawl space so he could go under the house and fix the damaged wire. Instead he ran a long phone line from our box to our kitchen phone, told us this was a temporary solution and that if we called the repair center in the morning someone would come out in the morning and fix it.
We called in the morning, only again to be given no time frame for the repair. My father again waited all day, this time no one showed up. Even after he called 3 x's that day trying to get information on when the tech would be there....
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Slow Sync Speed

Hi there,
I've read many posts on this forum and believe that my sync speed is quite low. I did a theoretical max speed test for my line attenuation at Kitz.co.uk and it said that I should have a speed in excess of 19000kbps with an ip profile of 16000kbps. I have been using a dodgy micro filter that disconnected the broadband everytime I recieved a phone call however I have purchased a new one and my router is running flawlessly with no dropouts. The noise margin is constantly at 6db. I believe that this may have flagged my line to be faulty and thus resolved a slower sync speed to compensate.
I disconnected the broadband roughly 8 days ago after it had been connected for about 15 days expecting to sync at a higher speed but infact the sync speed dropped by several hundres kbps.
Is there any way that I can sync at a higher speed?
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Ok I ran cat /proc/avalanche/avsar_modem_stats via telnet
AR7 DSL Modem Statistics:
[DSL Modem Stats]
US Connection Rate: 828 DS Connection Rate: 10544
DS Line Attenuation: 23 DS Margin: 5
US Line Attenuation: 13 US Margin: 9
US Payload : 3985202784 DS Payload: 3901859552
US Superframe Cnt : 42408111 DS Superframe Cnt: 42408111
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LOS errors: 0 SEF errors: 0
Errored Seconds: 3592 Severely Err Secs: 4
Frame mode: 0 Max Frame mode: 0
Trained Path: 1 US Peak Cell Rate: 1952
Trained Mode: 16 Selected Mode: 1
ATUC Vendor Code: 54535443 ATUC Revision: 3
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BitSwap: 1 US Max Attainable Bit Rate: 1284966 bps
Annex: AnxA psd_mask_qualifier: 0x0000
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T1413Vid: 00 00 T1413Rev: 00 VendorRev: 00
ATUR ghsVid: b5 00 54 53 54 43 00 00
T1413Vid: 00 00 T1413Rev: 00 VendorRev: 00
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CRC: 351 FEC: 275203 NCD: 0
LCD: 0 HEC: 220
[Downstream (RX) Interleave path]
CRC: 5290 FEC: 67573629 NCD: 0
LCD: 0 HEC: 0
[Upstream (TX) Fast path]
CRC: 0 FEC: 0 NCD: 0
LCD: 0 HEC: 0
[Downstream (RX) Fast path]
CRC: 0 FEC: 0 NCD: 0
LCD: 0 HEC: 0
[ATM Stats]
[Upstream/TX]
Good Cell Cnt: 83025058
Idle Cell Cnt: 1324844211
Tx Packets Dropped Count: 0
Tx Bad Packets Count: 27
[Downstream/RX)]
Good Cell Cnt: 1244509050
Idle Cell Cnt: 3798720619
Bad Hec Cell Cnt: 84325
Overflow Dropped Cell Cnt: 0
Rx Packets Dropped Count: 0
Rx Bad Packets Count: 0
[SAR AAL5 Stats]
Tx PDU's: 27918363
Rx PDU's: 43978168
Tx Total Bytes: 2729375221
Rx Total Bytes: 2652108237
Tx Total Error Counts: 0
Rx Total Error Counts: 1569
[OAM Stats]
Near End F5 Loop Back Count: 0
Near End F4 Loop Back Count: 0
Far End F5 Loop Back Count: 0
Far End F4 Loop Back Count: 0
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I'm guessing that I am on ADSL as it says annex A? Does that mean that I can access any higher speeds as I'm not on ADSL2/+? or would forcing the modulation on the router help?
Update: It is set to trained mode 16 which is ADSL2+ What is going on here, I just restarted the router and it is now slower.
Thanks

Its been almost 2 Weeks...SLOW DL SPEED

My download speed has been really slow recently. my package is 20/5 and now im getting 0.4/2.6.
Whenever I called customer services, they asked me to do the same things. (reboot your modem, turn off your computer, go to speedguide.net, and optimize your setting and so on and on...)
Some of them admitted that they have a problem and others did not. I think that they have been received some complaints and they know about it but they couldnt pinpoint what exactly caused this.
I called them 4 times already, and they keep saying that i should wait and see.
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They mentioned that they had to implement a "hot fix". That almost sounds like a software patch, is that what that means or something else. If we gave you the group ticket number, could you look it up and see what they did?
Message Edited by peterjun on 10-16-2008 06:15 PM

update still No Luck...
I called FIOS services center and asked for hard reset on my ONT and they did...no improvement.
they keep saying no problem in thier network...hummm...
I tried 100 full duplex setting change as one guy suggested...no change...
During some research thru internet, One thing I found is that there are quite a number of people who have the same problem as I have.
here is a link for messages.
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r21284482-This-is-nutsFIOS-Internet-is-sloooooooow
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r21283300-southeast-Whats-involved-in-switching-back
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r21208319-northeast-BIG-Drop-in-dl-speed I
'm having the same problem. I think mine started early last week also.
I'm getting extremely horrible download speed, from only about 100kbps to 700kbps, on sites like microsoft.com, adobe.com, nvidia.com, giganews.com, ftp.netscape.com, etc. But my upload speed doesn't seem to be affected at all as is shown on speedtest.net. The download speed is so bad that even regular web browsing is somewhat affected.
FIOS tech support said it could be a hardware problem somewhere in the Verizon network and they'll try to pin point it and call me back in 48 hours. I'll call them tomorrow night if I don't hear from them.
The reason for him to say that is because while most places I'm getting horrible download speed, speedtest.net does show that I'm getting full 20Mbps down and 20Mbps up on a few of the testing servers. And while I was going to Trendnet.com to download drivers for my wireless usb adapter, I found that on »downloads.trendnet.com/ I can download at full 2.2+Mbps like I use to be able to.
Hey njchoochoo, try downloading this file and see if you're getting full download speed like you had before.
»downloads.trendnet.com/TV-IP422/···22_W.tgz
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Hi,
I've had a problem with slow DSL for over a year. Now it's become even worse. My computer is connected to the internet directly through a modem (I had to disconnect my router a long time ago, because of the speed), which is Westell 2110, B90-210015-04 (rev.F software). I ran a diagnostic for the modem, and this is what I got (sorry I coudn't insert a picture directly):
http://s180.photobucket.com/albums/x110/Brimruk_91/?action=view&current=1212.jpg
FEC Errors numbers are growing with time. My understanding is that the Noise Margin number also doesn't look so good. And I am not even talking about the Data Rate.
Considering these test results, as well as the fact, that on a rainy day my Internet speed is close to zero, I am blaming all of this on Verizon. Of course, I've called their Customer Service and got the typical advice about checking my computer for viruses and trojans (my computer runs McAfee soft and is updated regularly), and resetting the modem (didn't help at all).
Now, a Verizon tech is coming to my house Tuesday morning. Any suggestions on how can I prove to him that the slow Internet speed is not a problem on MY end of the line, but theirs?
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Read the tips at
http://www22.verizon.com/ResidentialHelp/HighSpeed
/Troubleshooting/Connection+Issues/QuestionsOne/88005.htm
One of more of those things, could be why your issue is happening in the first place.
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Hello.. I am a newbie so hope I can explain my problem accurately.
My Desktop PC is really slow espcially when I am accessing websites using either Chrome or IE.- Even Youtube is very choppy- ( Note..I have the latest version of both browsers but they are slow. (I am wired to my modem)
When I check the speed from my ISP using my HP desktop it is significantly slower than when I connect another laptop to my modem.
I have done all the virus updates,malware, disk clean up/defrag but it is still slow.
Navigating to other menus (My compuer, control panel etc) is not the best but it could be better in terms of speed
Could there be something wrong with graphics card or some other hardware? How can I test this.
I dont do gaming but I think this PC should be much better.
I appreciate your direction.
Here is the specs below. Let me know if you need more information.
HP CQ2025
AMD E-450 APU with Radeon HD Graphic 1.65GHz
4.00GB(3.60GB usable)
64bit OS
919GB HD (65.7 used)

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Im getting slower Connection speeds

Im getting slower connection speeds then what i ordered i got the 15mps and i only get 10 ?

It looks like you're right at the edge of the 10Mbps service limit for your copper line, as your margins are low and the line speed is incorrect.
Do you have access to a NID? If so, can you plug your modem into your NID's test jack and pull up the new statistics it shows? The NID can often times be found outside on the side/rear of your home, near your electrical panel/meter or on a pole near the street (uncommon for the last one).
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Power cycling the cable modem speeds up my email. Why?

For several days my email coming into my inbox was very slow, about several minutes to bring in about ten messages without any large attachments. Also opening up the email messages was very slow with the dreaded beach ball spinning. Then when I power cycled my Motorola Surfboard SB5100 modem to try to alleviate slow line speeds, the email problem went away! email came in fast and opened up quickly. Why would getting a new dynamic IP address help dramatically with email retrieval? (There was no effect on speeding up the line connection.)
Thanks.
Raymon

Update on my question:
1. Power cycling the modem to speed up email worked only once and I've not been able to reproduce it. Instead what seems to work well (so far) is "Compacting Folders". I'm using the Netscape 7.2 email client. When I called Netscape tech support, they agreed on Compacting Folders but cautioned that this may corrupt some email files. So far I've not seen any such corruption, but then I've not systematically checked all the email I have in folders.
2. Since my initial posting about two weeks ago, I've discovered that the "low connection speeds in the afternoon and lasting until about midnight" was apparently entirely due to my not clearing my Netscape browser cache often enough. Now when ever I see a drop in connection speed I simply trash the browser cache and the line speed immediately clocks back up to normal! And so, no sign of nodal oversubscription what so ever.
~Raymon
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