Why is my 28.8 or 33.6 or 56K Modem Connecting at 57,600 or 115,200?
. . . First of all, your modem is NOT communicating with the remote modem at 115,200 bps! What you are seeing is the DTE rate (Data Terminal Equipment speed — the speed your PC is talking to your modem) instead of the DCE rate (Data Communications Equipment speed — the speed your modem is talking to the remote modem). What you want to see is the DCE speed — the communications speed that the two modems negotiate with each other when they CONNECT. There are two reasons you may be seeing the DTE speed in your modem’s CONNECT message. The most common thing that causes display of DTE speed under Win9x is not having the proper “.inf” file for your modem. As mentioned earlier, a modem’s .inf file is a specially formatted text file that lists all the information Windows needs to control your modem. For example, .inf files contain all CONNECT messages your modem can produce. So if you have an outdated .inf that does not contain the proper messages for your modem, Win9x can’t figure out what
