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Is there anyway to get a better connection speed using a pc-dc server?

What If I cut all the wires in the phone cord except the red and green one, will that help?

The max u can get is 33k. Almost all modems upload at that speed. You would need to find a compatible modem that will upload at higher speeds.

you can download faster than upload. as with most home internet applications, you will be downloading way more than uploading. in the case of a PC-DC server the bottleneck is the Dreamcast and PC modems. the PC modem has to upload information to the Dreamcast. this is where i believe most of the lag is coming from.


you can try modem commands but i doubt you will gain any speed. i have tried a few in the past but they didn't do much, if anything at all.

I have found some new modems that upload at 48kbps but I don't think it would be worth it. The games are meant for slow speed and if you want is faster get a bba or use regular dialup.

The modems, where do I these input the commands at?

I loaded up PlanetWeb 3.0 and for the modem init I put this:

ATs 15=128 When attempting to connect, it got stuck with Init Modem.

EDIT: Never mind i got it to work:

It seemed to make it a little faster, but that might just be my mind wanting it to be faster, so ?I think its faster.

I will try to cut all of the cords except the red and green ones, I read that having all of the other ones just creates extra traffic on the line.

On Quake 3 when using DreamCast-Talks servers my connection was in orange, in Online Consoles it was in low green, In Souls Servers it was in Orange.

Unless you've configured your PC-DC wrong or modem driver needs updating, it should be running near the theoretical max of 33kbps. There isn't much room for signal loss in a short cable going from PC to Dreamcast.

If you have a V.92 modem you can change the upstream mode to digital and it will have a theoretical max of 48kbps upstream.

I think you would need to put a command to your PC modem to force higher upload speed.

Favrenation wrote:I think you would need to put a command to your PC modem to force higher upload speed.

I will try and figure out how to do that.

Maybe its in my registry settings for my modem.

Favrenation wrote:I think you would need to put a command to your PC modem to force higher upload speed.

i agree, the best place to start is with the PC modem. i already tested the shit out of the DC's modem.

I was reading about modems a few weeks ago and and they I heard that when people try to force higher download speeds it might not be very stable or something like that. I think of it as overclocking a pc. There's a breaking point to when it wont work.