Lookie lookie! :)

[Scrubby]

My 56K connected at 115K a few days ago. :eek:. I was zipping through sites like crazy. How is this possible? :confused:

[Cary]

Do you believe in magic?

[Sinecure]

Originally posted by Billy Cowen
My 56K connected at 115K a few days ago. :eek:. I was zipping through sites like crazy. How is this possible? :confused:

Theoretically impossible no?

[tubedogg]

Impossible? Yes...it may have said it was connected at 115K, but it wasn't, and any speedup you noticed was likely the result of a) you thinking it was connected at a faster speed hence you imagined it going faster, and/or b) you visited a lot of sites that compressed well.

[XiXora]

hmm thats the speed of the parrallel port :p

[DWZ]

software error of some kind

[Wayne Luke]

The 115K was the speed of your computer talking to your modem. Any increases of download speed over the legally regulated speed of 53,000 baud was purely imaginary.

[CondorZ]

When I'm in the middle of nowhere and use my cellphone and its modem to connect my notebook to the net, it says it has a 115K connection. Believe me, it isn't. A lightening fast download speed on that connection is 4 kb. :rolleyes:

[The Prohacker]

4k would be just about right for a 56k...

Usually windows adds 56k for upstream and 56k for downstream to make the number you see..

Its a stupid thing windows does :D

[plattopus]

I believe the maximum possible speed on a 56k is ~5.3kbps

[Scrubby]

Okay. And I am not one of those people that belive something so much it makes me think different. ;). So it may've been a software or hardware thing. Oh well. How about this then? IT was a while before this occurence. :D. But when I was adding a hack from vB.org to my site I was downloading the files I needed to edit at about 6 to 11 k. No lower. :confused:

[Cary]

Everytime I download something on a 56K Modem, it always starts around 29k's a sec... a second later it's down to 25k, another second later 18k --> 11k --> 9k --> 8k --> then ranging from 3k - 6k a second... :)

[Scrubby]

My modems been hit by lighting about three to five times. Had to buy a new one each time. :D. :p.

[Skeptical]

The fastest you can go with a 56kbps modem is actually only 52kbps. I believe it's some FCC regulation of some sort.

52kbps = 52000bps => translate into BYTES from BITS => 52000/8 = 6500 BYTES per second = 6.35 kiloBYTES per second.

Correct me if I missed something.

[Cybernetic]

you missed someting its 53.333 is maximum donned by the FCC, stupid law if u ask me

what its showing is up and down becuase m y cousins computer signs on like that all the time, it didnt connect any faster, and some computers do it sometime on a glitch

[N9ne]

2kb/s was fast for my 56k one year ago...now I'm a happy Cable Owner...and have been for one year.

[tubedogg]

You can be downloading at more than 5KB per sec, if you take compression into account. Text files being downloaded from vB.org are highly compressible and it would give the appearance of going much faster.

[bigmattyh]

Consider this, too, that even if it were possible for your modem to double its speed, it's highly unlikely that the 56K modem at your ISP would also be capable of defying the 56K bounds.

[JamesUS]

In practice you can get between 5 and 7kb/s from a 56k modem with compression in my experience.

On my ISDN line I usually get between 6 and 10kb/s - while the theoretical max is 8k (64/8) compression allows an extra k or two.

[Wayne Luke]

Originally posted by plattopus
I believe the maximum possible speed on a 56k is ~5.3kbps

It is without compression... 5.3k is 53000 buad. A baud is basically the number of bits you receive per second.

[Wayne Luke]

Originally posted by Skeptical
52kbps = 52000bps => translate into BYTES from BITS => 52000/8 = 6500 BYTES per second = 6.35 kiloBYTES per second.

Correct me if I missed something.

Actually most modems use 10 bit characters for error correction.