Quick overview:
Especially for modem owners, the dial-up experience is always a source of gloom. Unfortunately, due to the fact that analog technology is no longer available, there is no particular hope for lightning-fast dial-up in the sense of ISDN/DSL. However, you can save a few seconds with a little trick. Using a special initialization command, you can set the dial-up speed to 50ms per tone signal, which is the absolute maximum for conventional modems. You can also try going down to 40 or even 30 - if it works, that speaks for the quality of your device!
Speed up modem/DSL
1. Click with the right mouse button on Workplace and select Properties.
2. In this new window, open the tab Hardware and click on the button Device Manager...
3. Click on the + Sign before Modem and select the entry for your modem by double-clicking on it.
4. A new window suddenly appears in which you can select the tab Extended to select it. Now enter the following in the line Further initialization commands the command S11=50 in.
As already indicated above, a smaller number also means faster dial-up. You can try 40 or 30 as a test! If your Internet no longer works, you can always increase it.
NOTE FOR NEW PUBLICATION: This article was produced by Sandro Villinger and comes from the Windows Tweaks archive, which has been built up since the late 1990s.
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