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Posted by Will Honea on April 28, 2006, 2:22 am
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On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 20:10:58 UTC jbilbro@wavecom.net (John Bilbro)
wrote:
> >[A complimentary Cc of this posting was sent to
> >Willherb
> >> is there any software that unlocks a modem to do any speed it wants
> >> (providing the phone lines has no limitation).
> >
> >Essentially, it's the modem's BIOS. You pay your service provider for
> >a particular speed, and modem is set up to run at this speed. The
> >speed is most probably negotiated between the modem and your service
> >provider, and you might be able to change the BIOS to botch this
> >negotiation.
> >
> >Of course, it is a breakage of service agreement (even if you manage
> >to make it work), and it is immediately noticable from the other
> >end...
> >
> >Yours,
> >Ilya
>
> My service is through QWest. The ISP that sold me my DSL modem/router
> did not make any changes to the modem and indeed told me to select any
> of the modems he had in stock. I watched as he set up the modem, which
> had more to do with DHCP options, LAN addresses and PPPoA options than
> anything else. I was told that QWest does the speed restriction thing at
> there end and nothing about the modem has an option for speed selection.
I've got Qwest DSL as well. I bought the Actiontec modem/router that
they use as their "standard, supplied hardware" just to keep things
simple. It has NO provision for speed settings but I keep track of
the church's setup as well and I can tell you from some swapping
around that the speed control is all at the Qwest end - the church
usually has something like 2.4/2.4 mbs while I normally get 640/256
service at home. I say normally because on a forced retrain,
especially at the church, I sometimes get a degraded connect at a
lower speed and have to re-connect to get the speed back up. According
to one of their service types, they do a line analysis at the higer
speeds and adjust to condiditons at connect time. I swap modems back
and forth every so often after firmware updates (the modem runs
Linux/BusyBox) with no changes other than UID/PW.
--
Will Honea
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