Why Do I Get a Dropped or Slow Connection?

Why is my Connection Slow or get Dropped?

There are many reasons, why you may experience a slop or your connection drops.

The stability of a connection is affected by the quality of the communication that occurs between two modems; the clearer the communication, the more stable the connection. Some of the variables that affect the way modems communicate with each other are as follows:
    1. The Clarity of your phone line.
    2. The Signal on a phone line can be degraded as a result of weather
    3. The distance between your home and the phone company's switching equipment
    4. Electrical interference or anything else that affects the transmission of electrical interference
    5. High Voltage copper wires that affects the transmission of data to your PC or network.
    6. Lots of spicing along your phone line or poorly spliced wires. That is why you get a disconnection
        when it rains

A lot of poorly spliced cables along your phone line can be a problem

    7. Defective jack. (RJ11, RJ45)

If  you hear static on the line when you attach a regular phone, it is a sure sign that you have a noicy line, but the lack of static is not a proof that your phone line si clear enough to establish a high speed connection. In Some parts of the country, customers can have the local company "Condition" the line to ensure that the phone line is performing optimally, but even that is guarantee, if your home is a long distance call from the phone company's switching equipment.
The compatibility of the two modems. Despite the fact that modems communicate according to standardized protocols, modem manufacturers implement those protocols
differently. Consequently, a modem manufactured by one company may not communicate well with a modem manufacturer by a competitor. To increase the likelihood that your modem is performing optimally, make sure that you have the latest modem drivers installed and are using the right modem initialization string.
The Configuration of you TCP/IP software. Your TCP/IP software tells you computer how to communicate with your modem. If it is configured incorrectly, it will produce errors that will degrade the stability of you connection.
How well you TCP/IP soffware loaded into the system at start-up. Sometimes the quality of a connection can be improved by restartging you computer. Chronic  problems with your TCP/IP software, however, may be rectiied by unistalling and reinstalling the TCP/IP system software.

Additional telephony devices (fax, phones, answering machines, splitters, etc) may be producing interference on the phone line, even if they're in a different room. Try disconnecting them and trying to establish a connection again.