s currently beyond the scope ofthis file. If you cannot get your WinModem to function, I suggest checkingyour manufacturer's website and downloading the most current drivers for it.You may be able to access the Internet by using a friend, family, orco-worker's computer in order to obtain the drivers if you cannot connect tothe Internet with your WinModem. You can then copy the drivers onto a floppydisk and use them in your own computer.CptSiskoX@Geocities.com========================Unplugging Devices From Modem's PHONE JackThis tip appears courtesy of thor@micronet.net (Ray) and AXCEL216@aol.com.If someone's modem is not connecting at its full potential the phone they havecoming out of their machine may be effecting it. Most modems have a jack for"LINE" and "PHONE" the one labeled "LINE" being incoming and the one labled"PHONE" being outgoing. If there is a telephone or caller ID box connected tothe "PHONE" (outgoing) jack, it may be affecting your Internet/Fax/BBSconnections. For Ray, it would only connect at 31200 while the telephone wasplugged into the "PHONE" (outgoing) jack, but when he unplugged the telephonefrom the "PHONE" (outgoing) jack he was connecting at 33600 every time.Thank you very much Ray and George for this tip.Ray (thor@micronet.net) and George (AXCEL216@aol.com)========================MaxMTU FixSome people have found that their Internet file transfers are quite slow,often between 900-1,800 characters per second, even on a 56k modem. It mightvery possibly be a result of a Windows 95/98 Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU)problem. Look at the "Bytes received/sec." in System Monitor (SYSMON) andcompare it to the characters per second reported by your web browser. Thesetwo numbers should be within 10%-12%; so if your "Bytes received/sec." is3,300, your characters per second should be around 3,000. If the charactersper second are 900-1,800, you are getting a lot of unneeded retransmissionsthat are quite possibly due to the W...
