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It may be the problem of the phone line between your home and the phone company and you have no way to fix it.<br />
I have a 33.6 modem, and I was able to connect at 3?K, but once I moved to a new apartment, I can never get anything more than 26K (with nothing changed).<br />

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It may be the problem of the phone line between your home and the phone company and you have no way to fix it.
I have a 33.6 modem, and I was able to connect at 3?K, but once I moved to a new apartment, I can never get anything more than 26K (with nothing changed).


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Adjusted points to 30<br />

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I just bought a new computer with an internal 56k modem. My previous modem was a 14.4 and was quite slow on the Internet. However, my new modem doesn't seem all that much faster. My ISP only accepts 33K, but I usually connect at 19200 bps. I'm thinking of switching ISP to one who connects at 56k but my phone company told me that normal phone lines won't accept 56k and that I'd need an ISDN line. Is this true? Anything else I could do to connect at a higher speed?
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I just bought a new computer with an internal 56k modem. My previous modem was a 14.4 and was quite slow on the Internet. However, my new modem doesn't seem all that much faster. My ISP only accepts 33K, but I usually connect at 19200 bps. I'm thinking of switching ISP to one who connects at 56k but my phone company told me that normal phone lines won't accept 56k and that I'd need an ISDN line. Is this true? Anything else I could do to connect at a higher speed?

56K Modem

Networking hardware includes the physical devices facilitating the use of a computer network. Typically, networking hardware includes gateways, routers, network bridges, modems, wireless access points, networking cables, line drivers, switches, hubs, and repeaters. But it also includes hybrid network devices such as multilayer switches, protocol converters, bridge routers, proxy servers, firewalls, network address translators, multiplexers, network interface controllers, wireless network interface controllers, ISDN terminal adapters and other related hardware.