On Mon 08 Jul at 08:22 Steven Anderson (3:623/683) wrote to Russell Brooks:

 SA>  Off to the WEST of Mudgee (out of town) the lines are 
 SA> REAL BAD, But Telstra have just finished UPgrading the 
 SA> exchange out there for tone dialing, etc, so My mate 
 SA> took his V.34 Modem I have running on my BBS to try the 
 SA> new exchange out. We where sadly mistaken Tel$tra could 
 SA> do anything right :), at V.34 IT FAILS TO CONNECT.  The 
 SA> best we could do was a 2400 (V.21?) Connect.  He's now
 SA> back to the HST courier where he gets a ROCK SOLID 
 SA> 14k4/HST connect :)

What was Frank Nitzsche's explanation for it?

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