I used to get high 56K speeds (45000-53333) but now I get less than 45,000. Why?
Quite frankly, 56K is a technology that pushes the limits of the telephone
company's system. It requires absolutely pristine telephone line conditions to
exist between your house and the telephone company. Once your call hits the
phone company it becomes 100% digital all the way to our modems. So, line
quality beyond that point is not an issue. Slower rates are almost always due to
varying levels of noise in your city's local telephone lines. Call volumes (like
during holidays, or evenings) can increase this noise, which may also have an
impact on connection speeds. Additionally, every time you place a call, it may
select one of several different paths to your telephone company. If one path is
noisier than the other, your connection speed for that call will suffer. For a
minor connection speed drop like this, the cause is almost always a temporary
condition in the phone company. We advise seeing if the situation corrects
itself over the course of a week. If it does not, it is likely the phone company
has made some wiring or routing change that is causing the problem.
