Yea, as I said I have no idea what it does.

But my guess is that the real source of *my* improvement was changing the number to be dialed.

Good luck with yours, Perry

Jim N

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