David Drummond wrote in a message to Ludi Desouza:

 DD> Ludi, at 14:54 on Jan 02 1997, you wrote to David Drummond...

 LD> Having the Courier hang up 'in disgust' seems to be quite
 LD> illogical compared to the way my modem handles it.

 DD> I guess the courier feels that if a retrain is necessary and
 DD> the other end can't comply, there is no point in continuing
 DD> the connection.

 DD> I can't imagine why one would want to disable retrains (in
 DD> any form) anyway...

If your phone lines have a variable S/N ratio a situation can develop where
the modems go fulltime into retraining and nothing else can happen, fixing
the speed to a lower level can be the only option in such situations.

Regards - Terry Hollis

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