On Sunday, January 05 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote to John Piper ...

 JP> Drummond (who AFAIK is running the same SDL as I am) and Russell Brooks,
 JP> both Courier owners, it's evident that 33600 connects are possible with
 JP> the V.Everything. Simple: it can't be a modem/SDL problem.

 HM> Not necessarily. Not an SDL problem, but possibly a modem problem.
 HM> Read on ..

[...]

 HM> So yesterday, I decided to swap the datapumps, and obviously the
 HM> firmware. Other people seem to have no problem with the V.34 Supra, so
 HM> I suspected mine might be actually faulty somewhere. The old V.FC is
 HM> now V.34, and it goes great -- 100% success on two polls to my hub
 HM> (one to the V.FC, one to the V.34), and 100% success rate on two calls
 HM> to the uni's Dataplexen. Hence, your modem may have a slightly dodgy
 HM> analog section or some problem similar to mine which makes 33600 an
 HM> impossibility.

Note that I was referring to the Courier as opposed to any other modems
which claim to be able toconnect at 33600 bps. David and Russell both have
Couriers, and regularly see 33.6k connects. Russell's modem is the
US/Canada model, but David's is the Austel version (same as mine) running
the same SDL I run.

I have managed 33.6k connects, which proves that it IS POSSIBLE. Granted,
it's not as frequent as I would like.

 HM> Sorry, can't better your 33600 record;

 HM> * 05 Jan 12:14:59 BINK Processing node 3:712/841{at}fidonet -- Lateline Bbs
 HM> : 05 Jan 12:14:59 BINK Dialing 02-9579-6564
 HM> # 05 Jan 12:15:26 BINK Carrier 31200Tx/31200Rx
 HM> # 05 Jan 12:15:26 BINK Protocol: Alt
 HM> # 05 Jan 12:15:26 BINK Compression: None
 HM> # 05 Jan 12:15:26 BINK Connect 31200/Arq

The same speed was reported at this end:

= 12:12:12  RING
= 12:12:28  CONNECT 31200/ARQ/V34/MNP
+ 12:12:33  Cloud Nine, 3:632/552
~ 12:12:33  SysOp: Hamish Moffatt

Interesting that you used MNP. I rarely receive MNP-enabled calls.

John (japp{at}mpx.com.au)

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