Paul Cundle said,
>> It should do, but they don't always do what they should. The concern
>> is partly because some modems connect at a higher speed than they
>> should and retrain downwards shortly after, giving falsely high
>> initial connect speeds, the figure most people look at in respect of
>> their connect quality. This is why I say the connect speed is
>> somewhat irrelevant.
> Is there any way of determining current connect speed. You can't go
> into AmTerm at the same time you are connected, and Genesis doesn't
> automatically update.
> Maybe there is a piece of shareware available which intercepts the
> connect speed or something to display it ?!
There isn't, because this would involve talking to the modem when it's
trying to handle data throughput. however, there are programs that
show current or average throughput, which is far more useful than a
connect speed.
A high connect speed may give a lower throughput becuase of
retransmits caused by errors, until those retransmits happen often
enough to force a retrain.
Basically, forget connect speed, only throughput counts.
Neil
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