For the past two months now, my modem has bein playing up, alot. It used to almost allways conect at 49.2k and dl's would go at 4.7-5.3k. Then one day windows sudenly died on me and I was forced to do a clean install (xp home with sp1. its a legit copy, so no dodgy pirated winxp issue's). After that I started having serios problems. My modem allways conects between 24 and 33.6k. usualy its 33.6, but most of the time when it conects at that speeds, my downloads go at around 1.6k, which makes hanging around forums painfull, and downloading any software/media and absolute nightmare. the phone line is conected to my (pci) modem through a 5 meter extention line, but its bein like that ever since I had the net, so its not the problem. I tried dling the latest modem drivers from www.conexant.com . When I double clck the exe to install the drivers, a loading bar comes up, and 3 seconds later my comp crashes and restarts. I tried installing them through the device manager, that didnt work iether. I reinstalled windows again yesterday. The dl speed went back to its good old 49.2k , that was the first time i dailed up. from then on, every time I got on it would go back to the same speed issue's I was having before. The only things I have installed are ac97 audio driver, ati catalyst 4.1, firefox, winrar, divx, max payne and msn6.2 , so nothing that would conflict with my modem.
Anyone got a solution to my problem?
