In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
Theo Markettos wrote:

In uk.telecom.mobile Roger Mills wrote:
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.

Most dongles/etc are set up to look like RS232 devices, but they don't
actually send data via RS232. So the baud rate is irrelevant -
you'll get whatever it can do, whether that's 7.2Mbps HSDPA or 9600
bps GSM.


Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work like that! If I do a speed test when
it says it's connected at 115k, it reports 0.1M in both directions!

By following the suggestion made by Dex in another post, I've managed to get
it to connect at 921,600 bps - but it still insists it's a modem, associated
with COM4! I can't get it to connect at 3.6M like the dongle does.

Anway, the speed test is now giving 0.9M down and 0.3M up - which is, at
least, useable. [TBH, I've rarely got anything better than this with the
dongle, even though it synchs at a higher speed]
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Cheers,
Roger
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