Win XP Pro (SP1) -- DUN tray icon & Task Manager show 'port speed' _not_ 'connection speed'.

My port speed is configured to 115.2, whereas my connection speed
is usually 42.67, sometimes 44.0 (as per modem log) but it's the port
speed which appears in the DUN tray icon and also in Task Manager.

I know this is wrong but can't find anything on MS KB to explain
how to correct it...anybody able to help on resolving this irritating
problem.?

TIA

 

115.2 is the speed from the modem to your motherboard
42.67 is the speed from your isp to your modem

 

DUN shows 57,600 or 115,200 bit/s
http://www.modem-help.co.uk/modblame.html#115200

 

I know that.
What I want to know is how to get the modem speed (42.67)
to appear in the DUN icon and Task Manager as it should do
(and as it used to do until something changed...).

 

Thanks °Mike°. I hoped you might cast your eye at this problem.
I've got a USR 56k internal voice modem V.90 and it worked well
under W98/SE but since rebuilding my machine and installing XP-Pro,
the modem connection has gone barmy.

XP-Pro auto-installed the modem and calls it a 'USR 56k Voice
Win 1806' (whatever that is) and uses the 1806 .inf which I think may
be the wrong one. I've noticed apart from the DTE port speed being
reported instead of DCE connection speed, it also shows that no
compression is used nor error correction! Adding extra AT settings
seems to have no effect. I also suffer from frequent 'lost carrier'
problems (connection just stops but stays connected) and have to
disconnect and re-dial. Then I find the DUN often goes into
'Not Responding' mode...so I have to close with brute force.
Such is life.

Anyway, I'll browse around that link you quoted above and keep
trying to get to the bottom of it.

Thanks for your help.

 

Then you need to update it to the correct one. See the
USR site for the correct driver .inf file:
http://www.usr.com/support/drivers-template.asp?prod=s-modem
http://www.usr.com/support/downloads-template.asp?prod=s-modem
http://www.usr.com/support/drivers-template.asp?prod=s-pccard

If you can't find it above, see:
http://www.usr.com/support/s-main-menu.asp

You can correct that in the DUN properties.

See if updating the modem driver helps.

Ok, good luck.

 

I'll have another look but...
I've Been there. Sadly, USR don't seem to know which modem I have.
The picture & spec they show of my model number don't match.

I think their modem model naming/numbering must have got out of
control some time ago, possibly when 3Com/USR merged and (I think)
then de-merged again.

I'll take another look.

Been there, changed the properties but some changes have no effect
(compression/error correcton).

I'm running the latest driver installed with XP-Pro.
USR site has nothing for XP.

Thanks, there might be some clues on that other website or links.