"Graham." wrote in message
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"Roger Mills" wrote in message
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I've reported on earlier occasions that my laptop always crashed as soon
as I connected my S2 to it, even though the S2 worked ok with my desktop
computer.

The *good* news is that I have finally got the S2 to connect to the
laptop without crashing it. I have done this by creating a Profile in
which I've disabled all hardware which I don't actually need when
connecting to the internet - including CD drive, floppy drive, serial and
parallel ports, and internal modem. [Some time when I've got nothing
better to do, I'll add them back in one at a time to find out which one
is responsible for the crashes].

The *bad* news is that it insists on connecting at 115,200 bps - even
though the dongle always connects at 3.6Mbps.

When I go to Network Connections and look at Properties for the S2 modem,
it's max speed is set at 115,200. It allows me to change it to around
900k (that's the highest it offers) - but when I re-start the modem, it's
back to 115,200 - even after a re-boot.

Go to a speed-test web-site and check your real-world up/down speed. You
might be surprised
at the result.
Graham.


Indeed i use www.speedtest.net to test my S2, and as you say the USB speed
settings makes no difference.

For some reason my defaults to 480kbps

Steve Terry
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