V.90 standard - was supposed to do away with the differences between X2 and K56FLEX, but some inequality still remains. Phone wiring - is probably one of the biggest factors. Imagine hooking together a string of garden hoses, where the connections are, you get leaks from the fittings, the same thing happens with data. Your data getting sent back and forth goes through many switches and your data packets can get dropped at many places along the way. ReachONE makes every effort to ensure we do not drop your data packets.
Traffic jams can be a normal part of using the internet.
Also the day of the week, for example Saturday mornings are much slower internet traffic than Friday nights. This is the general flow of internet traffic. You can understand that even on the Information Superhighway we will experience some traffic jams. All of our modems are 3COM digital 56k running the v.90 standard. The first file is msdun13.exe and this file must be run first.