On Sun 04 Feb at 17:38 Dave Hatch (3:711/808{at}fidonet) wrote to Arthur Marsh:

AM> Brian Peacock at Telstra INOC has told me that it should 
AM> be fixed and working by Tuesday, if you're referring to 
AM> international calls in the above problem case.

 DH> Nope.  Local.  Even within the same exchange.
...
 DH> Characteristics - occurs on high quality lines, with 31200 
 DH> happily running, good S/N, excellent line phase and 
 DH> amplitude characteristics - perfect.  Wham.

 DH> One direction or other will suddenly begin frantically 
 DH> downshifting - in one case, I saw it all the way down to 
 DH> 2400.  In most cases, the effort fails, and the call 
 DH> disconnects.  If you hear it with the speaker on, the sounds 
 DH> are rather astonishing - something VERY funny is going on.  
 DH> It's not a crossed call, however - no other channel comes through.

Definately one for Frank Nitzsche to have a look at.

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