After posting the below question twice on 3 ddifferent forums, I'm now looking for a 56K that people have got to work trouble free under Windows XP. Any suggestions? Ideally I'm looking for an internal hardware modem.


I'm using WinXP, and I have a ESS 56K modem which won't disconnect on occations. When I'm in the middle of downloading and my connection reaches the 2 hour cut off, the connection icon dissappears and looks as if it is disconnected. But when I look at the 'Windows Task Manager', It tells me that I'm still connected, but 'not operational'. I'm still able to connect to the net with ANOTHER connection, but no trafic in either dirrection. The only way I can fix it is to restart.

This is really bugging me, and interupts my automated system. Also this never happened when using Win98SE.

Is there some setting, script, or program to close all comm ports and connections?

You would not believe all the troubles I ran into with my modem when I installed XP. I tried at least ten different drivers for different brands of modems with the same chipset as mine, and the generic ones from Conexant, and some modified ones from a Russian site, but either the drivers offered poor performance (27 Kbps), or hung up every ten minutes. :(
In 98 and 2000, my modem is giving speeds of 46-47 Kbps.
Now XP is long gone from my system, I am running 98 and W2K in dual boot, but 98 gets very rarely used. I am very satisfied with 2K, and will never look back.

ltww who is your ISP? Like I said in your other post I too had the same problem. You just need to disconnect before the two hours is up.

I have used the Best Data Fax Modem on XP and it works fine.


Roger

Originally posted by Trondos
You would not believe all the troubles I ran into with my modem when I installed XP. I tried at least ten different drivers for different brands of modems with the same chipset as mine, and the generic ones from Conexant, and some modified ones from a Russian site, but either the drivers offered poor performance (27 Kbps), or hung up every ten minutes. :(
In 98 and 2000, my modem is giving speeds of 46-47 Kbps.
Now XP is long gone from my system, I am running 98 and W2K in dual boot, but 98 gets very rarely used. I am very satisfied with 2K, and will never look back.

No problems at all under 2K? Do you miss anything about XP? I was under the impression that XP was basically the same as 2K, but with a 9x kernel. I think I'll follow the same plan.

Originally posted by Roger Moore
ltww who is your ISP? Like I said in your other post I too had the same problem. You just need to disconnect before the two hours is up.

I have used the Best Data Fax Modem on XP and it works fine.


Roger

Roger mate, I did it so it would disconnect and reconnect automatically after just an hour, but its now doing it all the time, and at any time. I 've had it do it after just 10 minutes. XP just don't like my modem. Going to do a 2K/98SE combo. Don't play many games so I should be safe enougth....just hate wasting that 512Mb RAM I got, but it never seem to use more than half at any time anyway.

Well after a small bit of experimenting over the last few months I will only use Intel or Rockwell (hardware) modems on all built systems with XP as O/S. I've had zero problems with either of these, in fact at first I had an old batch with no specific XP drivers and used the W2K drivers with no problems whatsoever. And they are not dear either, I am paying £8 each for either and you can easily get them retail for about £10/11 at most computer fairs.


HTH :)

Originally posted by ltww


No problems at all under 2K? Do you miss anything about XP? I was under the impression that XP was basically the same as 2K, but with a 9x kernel. I think I'll follow the same plan.

No, no problems at all. I certainly not miss all the fancy graphics in XP (I turned that off anyway) :D.
XP is a "merge" between 2000 and Me/98. It gives the stability of 2000 (almost) with the gaming capability of 98.
Be aware that not all games run on 2000. That is why I have 98 as well.

Lazza, I had a Rockwell external modem, an old one from 1997, when I first installed XP. This worked perfectly fine. Then this stopped working after a thunderstorm, and I bought a el cheapo Rockwell/Conexant winmodem. This was when my troubles started.

Trondos, that I think seems to be the problem with XP...The Conexant HFC chip.

The Rockwell's I use don't have that and are hardware modems, the trouble is if you buy on the net you won't be able to examine the modem first to make sure. So ltww if I were you I'd pop along to your nearest computer fair and check them out there. But stay well away from that HFC as Trondos said! The Rockwell's I use have the HAM chip as do the Intel ones also, pay slightly more for a hardware one as opposed to a software modem.

HTH :)

Actually, my modem has a Conexant HSF chip, but I believe it is pretty much the same as the HFC chip.
If I remember correct, I once downloaded a driver for Conexant HCF/HSF chipsets, but I am not sure about this.....:confused:

Trondos, I used to use the Conexant's all the time as they were so cheap. I've also found in the past that they even connected at higher speeds on a regular basis compared with some dearer modems. Shame there seems to be all this trouble with them and XP. :(