Modem on board?

The modem would be a separate card. Check your invoice. Most likely it is a BCM v.92 SoftModem.

Thanks.

I'm also curious if there is there a basic tweak to connect faster than 44 (AOL)?  I won't even go to the downloading speed issue, it downloads at +-5.0, haven't seen a modem that downloads faster than that.

 

44,000 bps is not an unusually slow connect rate, in fact it is pretty typical. It takes a seriously good line to get much above 48k, and the line is not consided 'bad' unless the initial connect rate is at or below 40k.

Not sure what you mean by throughput of +-5.0 (do you mean about 5.0?). There are 8 bits/byte, but with overhead it takes about 9.5 bits of sent data to create one received byte. So a 44k connection would be expected to produce a throughput of about 4.6 kByts/sec

Thanks again.

I ment more or less (+-) 5.0 bps downloading files ranging from 1MB to 20MB in size.  I guess the higher the connection rate the faster download times.

Well, still better deal than cable or DSL, price wise that is.