On Jan 19 07:07 96, John Piper of 3:712/841 wrote:

JP> Hi Deon.

JP> On Wednesday January 10 1996, Deon Attard wrote to Kris Roebuck ...

DA>> with V.34 if you connect at 28800 and the line quality is not good,
DA>> then instead of getting errors the modem will slow down to 26400 etc
DA>> to aviod errors, then if the line clears up, it will train back up to
DA>> 28800.  Same story if you connect at 26400 (or any speed for that matter)
DA>> if the line clears up, it will train up to 28800..  Generally you connect
DA>> at a higher speed to start with, with a v.34 modem..

JP> Doesn't the same thing wrt retrains apply to V.FCs?

Only if you had one that was fixed.  Not many got there.

Regards,
Dave Hatch.

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