Connecting at 115kbs on a 56k modem???

I'm at my brothers house tonight. I'm running dial up on my laptop with my 3com 56k modem and AT&T business account. It says I'm connected at 155 kbs. And pages are loading almost as fast as my cable modem it seems. Even the ones that aren't in my cache.

Anyone else ever have this hapen???

 

[Jgtdragon]

What you smoking? Pass some over.

 

[Ionizer86]

Is this from the windows connection manager or from cnet bandwidth tests? Stuff like propel can get dial-up to 100+kb/s. If it's the connection manager, lemme ask you if you have win2k? Win2k always reported 115k or something for some reason, but it didn't feel faster than 56k.

 

[SoylentGreen]

You're getting double the speed!!

Don't tell anyone or your ISP will stop you.

 

[GhettoFob]

It's a business account, it goes faster.

 

[Ionizer86]

Literally connecting at 115 doesn't make sense if the gov limits dial-up to 53k....that's what all the 56k modems said in small print underneath.
<--confused..?

 

[bozo1]

This happens if the modem connects at a speed that isn't defined in it's .inf file. When that happens, Windows just reports the link speed (speed at which the PC is talking to the modem which is usually 115200). His modem is not connected to his ISP at that speed. Getting the latest .inf file from the modem manufacturer usually solves the issue.

 

[Heisenberg]

Originally posted by: bozo1
This happens if the modem connects at a speed that isn't defined in it's .inf file. When that happens, Windows just reports the link speed (speed at which the PC is talking to the modem which is usually 115200). His modem is not connected to his ISP at that speed. Getting the latest .inf file from the modem manufacturer usually solves the issue.

The 115200 is the max speed of a serial port IIRC.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: Heisenberg

Originally posted by: bozo1
This happens if the modem connects at a speed that isn't defined in it's .inf file. When that happens, Windows just reports the link speed (speed at which the PC is talking to the modem which is usually 115200). His modem is not connected to his ISP at that speed. Getting the latest .inf file from the modem manufacturer usually solves the issue.

The 115200 is the max speed of a serial port IIRC.

Yeah..makes more sense when thinking about an external modem....