CA> i got my modem in may, the option of getting a 33.6k modem was only $30, u 
CA> know why i don't have a 33.6k? because i didn't want one and know that i 
CA> would hardly ever get 33.6k connection speed, its a hard fact of life that 
CA> no one can always get good conection speeds without fibre optics or by luck

Your unsubstantiated comments are, as usual, complete and utter crap.  And
I have two suggestions as well - learn to quote, and get your fact
straight. The following stats are not the exception here, but the general
rule.

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USRobotics Courier V.Everything Link Diagnostics...

Chars sent               763
Chars Received           3625686
Chars lost               0
Octets sent              756
Octets Received          3616757
Blocks sent              260
Blocks Received          15621
Blocks resent            0
Retrains Requested       0
Retrains Granted         0
Line Reversals           0
Blers                    0
Link Timeouts            0
Link Naks                0
Data Compression         V42BIS 2048/32
Equalization             Long
Fallback                 Enabled
Protocol                 LAPM SREJ 244/15
Speed                    33600/33600
Last Call                00:18:04
Disconnect Reason        DISC Received
Modulation               V.34+
Carrier Freq    ( Hz )   1959/1959
Symbol Rate              3429/3429
Trellis Code             64S-4D/64S-4D
Nonlinear Encoding       ON/ON
Precoding                OFF/ON
Shaping                  OFF/OFF
Preemphasis     (-dB )   6/4
Recv/Xmit Level (-dBm)   24.2/12.1
SNR             ( dB )   39.5
Near Echo Loss  ( dB )   14.5
Far Echo Loss   ( dB )   37.1
Roundtrip Delay (msec)   3
OK
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