Nevertheless, we have given you some steps to try which may at least increase your connection speeds and bandwidth. First, it must be noted that if your modem says you are connecting at 24k, for example, you will NOT stay connected at that speed throughout your session. The speed increases and decreases as the load on the phone company, and Internet Texoma, increases and decreases. So even if you are connecting at 28.8k consistently, that will probably not be your speed throughout your session. If you are getting slow connection speed, meaning you have a 28.8k modem but connect at lower speeds, one reason may be line noise.
Line noise is due to bad phone line conditions, causing the data to be transferred improperly.
However, if you live fairly far away from a city, data conditioning your lines probably will not significantly help your problem. You also may have your software configured improperly. Look over all the modem settings and verify that they are correct. Another problem, and probably the least likely, is that you have incompatible hardware. If you have a generic modem then you probably aren't communicating with our modems at the highest capacity.