On Monday July 15 1996, Bill Grimsley wrote to John Piper ...

 JP> What sort of connect speeds do you achieve?

 BG> It varies quite dramatically according to the time of day, and I have had
 BG> some connects which couldn't exceed V.34 16800, but the average is around
 BG> 24000bps, with the (very) occasional 26400 or 28800 connect.  Never any
 BG> faster though, not even to a known V.34+ Courier in Illinois.

I suppose the quality and speed of your connect will also depend on the
lines in the area you're calling. Of course, good luck if your call happens
to be pushed down a cable half eaten by s shark. :-)

 JP> Prior to today, I have been running a NetComm M11F. In order to connect
 JP> to a node in Canada, I had to lock the baud rate down to 2400. Achieveing
 JP> an error-free connection, let alone a high speed, was near impossible.
 JP> Plus, the V.FC negotiation phase seemed to take forever. For the sake of
 JP> dumping off some netmail and collecting several small files in return,
 JP> locking it at 2400 gave me a quick, error-free connection.

 BG> Doesn't surprise me at all with a V.FC M11F.  :)

Oh?

 JP> Do you think I'll need to do this with my Courier?

 BG> Nope.  As V.34 can negotiate right down to 2400bps, there's no need to
 BG> lock your Courier to lesser speeds (in my experience, at least).

Of course. I forgot that V.34(+) allows fallback to 2400. Even so, I
managed to connect at 14400 once to Canada, but (if my memory serves me
correctly) the EC failed. In my opinion, dumping off a few messages at 2400
bps (with EC on) is a better move than a lousy 14400 connect which takes
seemingly forever to negotiate.

John (japp{at}mpx.com.au)

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