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Re: Modem connect speed & Win95 OEM

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From: Bob Thompson
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 00:00
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In article <01bbd717$e3f49fe0$2128989e@neily.demon.co.uk> "Neil Yeoman" <neil@neily.demon.co.uk> writes:

>Hi,

>Can anyone help. For a couple of days I have been using the OEM r2 of
>Win95, and dial up networking works in a slightly different way. Under
>Win95 after a connection is established the form tells you that you have
>connected and what the negotiated transfer speed is. Under the OEM version
>the comparative form tells you that you have connected but gives the speed
>as that of communication with the modem, i.e. 115,200. One can check the
>negotiated speed by checking in the modemlog.txt file, but it would be
>handy to more easily find the negotiated connection speed. Is there perhaps
>a registry entry for this? If I am going to perform a lengthy download I
>always like to make sure I connect above 28,800.

Sounds like the upgrade substituted a wrong/outdated version of the modem's 
.inf file into your inf subdirectory (\windows95\inf).

Try finding the proper inf file, putting it  in the proper directory, and then 
remove and reinstall modem.

  
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/Bob Thompson/
thompson@mcs.com
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From: thompson@mcs.com (Bob Thompson)
Subject: Re: Modem connect speed & Win95 OEM
Date: 1996/11/20
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