Russell, at 14:13 on Jan 10 1997, you wrote to Arthur Marsh ...

. . .[chomp]. . .

AM>> On another note to do with network performance, I feel a 
AM>> sense of failure that Paul Malkinson has decided to pull the plug on his 
AM>> bbs after the trouble he had getting acceptable line performance
for modem 
AM>> use in Nhulunbuy.

RB> I am in a similar boat here, averaging 5 10-20 minute 
RB> phone calls a day for the last 3 days talking to Telstra 
RB> Techs and  trying to get my lines improved.

RB> I might have a better chance at Nhulunbuy, myself

Mossman perhaps?

RB> I was told last night that they are only going to take 
RB> another look at my lines because I mentioned that thoughput 
RB> drops to 200cps (BELOW a 2400 connect) otherwise I am on my 
RB> own.). they also wanted to know what speed my modems trained 
RB> down to ?????? He was happy when I said 300.

RB> What a joke

RB> He said "SOME PEOPLE have the hide to expect 26400 modems 
RB> and above to work. on our phone system, of course they don't 
RB> and we don't bother helping anyone that complains that they 
RB> wont work at this speed, only 2300 and below"

Shit! Don't tell him I see 33,600 here...

David
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