when you connect on a 56k modem, you can hear the dialing followed by some static screeching. How do you make it so this sound can't be heard?
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when you connect on a 56k modem, you can hear the dialing followed by some static screeching. How do you make it so this sound can't be heard?
Hmm you buy a modem that is silent though you can hear it it's really really really faint!
Else check if it's got volume! If not plug some ear phones into the ear phone jack! :)
its been a long time, but i think you can turn the volume off in Control Panel
Depends on your modem. If it's a software modem you can do as Siyan said. If it's a hardware modem, I don't think you can do it.
Hardware modems are better overall though even if you can't mute the sound ;)
Hardware modem you can put ear phones in there unconventional but worked for me! :)
Saves the annoying high pitch screeching in our office! :p
Right click My computer, Properties, Device manager
find your modem, properties, see if you can disbale it there, if not, goto the control panel, modems or DUN, find your modem settings, turn the volume down or off
You should find it one of those places.
I prefer the volume up so I can hear it. That way I know whether the connection's training properly or not (it makes a different sound when you get a duff connection, so you can disconnect and try again).
all things considered, 56k still sucks. get broadband man
:rolleyes: yeah, well... that's outa my control.
- the volume thing doesn't work with my modem, i must have the hardware kind
Some places that's physically impossible. And anyway, 56k isn't that bad -- only main problem I had with it was that it tied up the phone line, and you get booted off every 2 hours with providers here. The speed I could deal with.Quote:
Originally posted by siyan
all things considered, 56k still sucks. get broadband man
But anyway.
If you have a hardware modem, go to the Modems control panel and set the modem properties to put the volume down.
hardware meaning external? my modem was external, there was a knob on the side
No. An external modem is *always* hardware. An internal modem can be software or hardware.
Yeah, DiGiTaIErRoR and parksie are right. The option for the volume is in under the modem properties (pretty obvious :D), but it still doesn't work when i turn it off. Im assuming this is because my modem isn't compatible with this option, as the tooltip explains.
if you're on aol:
theres an option in aol somewhere that does it...so Im guessing both places would have to have it on mute
I havent used my modem in years, but the phone plug I ripped off some old headphones is still in the modem =). I could set the volume to off, but it wouldnt change a thing with my modem, so I had to resort to that.
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Nevermind, it did work! I just had to restart my computer before the changes took effect :D
I'm pretty sure there is at least one external SW modem out there. It might be USB, though. :(Quote:
Originally posted by parksie
No. An external modem is *always* hardware. An internal modem can be software or hardware.
Anyway, there are AT commands to control the modem's volume as well, but that's probably what the control panel uses.
Yeah, all USB external modems are software, and all serial ones are hardware. I don't think there are any exceptions :confused:
I think there actually are USB hardware modems. I can't find an example of a software based serial modem, so I don't think they exist. But technically a winmodem is not a modem anyway.Quote:
Yeah, all USB external modems are software, and all serial ones are hardware. I don't think there are any exceptions
buy a car silencer and stick the model in it...just kidding...Quote:
Originally posted by Flip
when you connect on a 56k modem, you can hear the dialing followed by some static screeching. How do you make it so this sound can't be heard?
I have the same problem...but its a hardware modem so even if I turned it off it still screams...
Cheers...
I quieted mine down by stuffing a large amount of cotton in the
speaker with a paperclip.
It at least kept the noise out of the adjoining apartment.
I'm not sure I'm recommending you do this, but that's what I did.
The speaker on the card-type was a capacitor looking cylinder with
a small hold in the top. I think I was able to almost fit an entire cotton ball in it.
good luck.