Peter, at 15:06 on Jun 10 1996, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

PK> I added at your suggestion the above %E2. I seem to have better connections
PK> now although something else strange has occurred recently! I took my two
PK> older (one late 92 and one early 93 mfg.) telecom touch pad phones down to
PK> telstra's office and swapped them for new Telstra touchfone 400. When the
PK> old phones were left connected I had not encountered any problems dropping
PK> carrier after 15 mins. or similar but now with the two new phones connected
PK> to the line I connect ok to my bbs. go through the welcome screens but when
PK> I arrive at bluewave and attempt to download mail I recieve approx. 5 kb.
PK> and then the download halts. If I cancel the download and while still
PK> online disconnect the two new phones and try the download again everything
PK> goes ok. What's happening here? 

I'm not at all familiar with the 400s, but I can only surmise that they are
either doing the same thing as the old T-200s, or they have a higher REN,
and are putting an excessive load on your line.  Might be time to invest
$15 in a mode-3 adapter, which should solve ALL problems with parallel
phones.

Regards, Bill
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