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Hi,
I'm trying to use the USR8500 ADSL modem with Windows Vista Home Premium 32bit, but I've experienced a weird problem:
connection speed is much slower than with XP and it hangs.
Let me explain it better:
Drivers setup (it is a USB only modem) didn't work for PPPoATM, but went fine for PPPoEthernet and for WAN... but this is probably a minor issue since on XP the modem works with any of these settings.
After drivers setup, the installer forgot to create the new remote connection, so I had to create it manually (i created it following what the installer does on XP: the modem is detected as a ISDN modem, and the number to be dialed is 8,35 and corresponds to the VPI and VCI parameters of my line).
After a few trials and reboots, I can connect to the internet but at a very low speed: 6-7KB/s average with short bursts of 500KB/s and looong delays without any data exchange.
Do you know how to solve a similar problem? Any suggestion (excluding 'buy an ethernet modem/router' )?
Thanks!
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USB modem - weird issue
in Windows Vista
Posted · Edited by jockersoft
Thank you for your replies.
no, there are no vista drivers for this modem. The USR website is a bit misleading in this sense: the supported OSes should be colored in red, the unsupported one are in gray, so according to them no OS is supportedBut the fact it isn't officially supported does not necessary mean it won't work (this is an old modem.. they do not support it anymore).
For example XP is not supported too, but it works perfectly
yes, the installer is an .exe file. I installed the drivers by right clicking on the installer and selecting 'run as an administrator'. Then Vista warned me about 'unknown publisher' a couple of time but at the end the installation succeeded (at least for PPPoEthernet and WAN modes).If it can help troubleshoot the issue:
trying to ping any IP/domain results in a few successful pings interleaved by some random "request timeout" errors.