I might be wrong about this. But I tried the below procedure to see if it had any affect on my performance, as I have been slow the last couple weeks.

I normally have the modem speaker shut off. It appears that the "&fx" simply turns the speaker on.

PF


>Mine is a " U.S. Robotics 56K FAX INT PnP "...
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>In ControlPanel--> Modems--> and selecting the correct modem. . .
> - Under Properties / General (page) speed set to 57,600
> - Under Properties / Connection (page) / Advanced (button on that page) and in the "Extra Settings" box (which was blank to start) the string ' &fx ' with NO quotes, no embedded spaces and letters lower-case.
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>I have no idea what they do or if they are in any way responsible, but now I've got REAL performance on UT (without the doubled bandwidth!).
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>Hope this helps you,