On Jun 08 01:05 96, Arthur Marsh of 3:800/812 wrote:

AM> On Thu 06 Jun at 23:26 Dave Hatch (3:711/808{at}fidonet) wrote to Arthur 
AM> Marsh:

DH>> If that's the unit you were using yesterday, pardon me if 
DH>> I'm not impressed with the 2400 performance.  That was 
DH>> -ghastly-.  2400 should have been rock solid, and connected 
DH>> a good deal faster than it did.  A penny whistle would have 
DH>> done better, IMNSHO.

AM> No, that was the Motorola Codex 3265 doing the V.22bis.

AM> As Frank Nitzsche has stated, V.22bis has a limit on the maximum length of 
AM> copper between the modems and the hybrids (~5km maximum?). At my end, the 
AM> length is 2355 metres.

I'm getting all disillusioned again.   I've been using one-shot 2400 baud
calls to nearly everywhere on earth for the past few years, and always
found it to be both reliable and fast to connect.  Method of choice for a
single netmail message.   _Now_ he tells me it's busted...:-)

Details?   (I didn't see that thread.)

Regards,
Dave Hatch.

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