Hello Jim,

what kind of modem are you using?
can you be so kind on posting the AT string
I have a US Robotics "56k" something, and I am experiencing
the same trouble.

TIA

mark oliva

>Using this to reply to any interested, Ed.
>
>Just got off the phone with my provider.
>
>Seems that I was using an old number.
>Changing the number, lowering the modem properties 'rate' from 115,200 to 56,x00, and changing a special string thingy to have &fx in it (instead of blanks) seems to have made a huge difference!
>
>I may now finally know what "good" response time is.
>
>Without all the answers I never would have called, so thanks all!
>
>Cheers,
>
>Jim N
>
>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>Frankly, the last 2 days of daytime UT have been as bad as the UT at its worst for me.
>>>
>>>Has the doubled bandwidth helped anyone out there???
>>>
>>
>>My dialup connection seems to drop out midday far less than it did before. And turning off graphics makes things noticably snappier.