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echo: usr_modems
to: Richard Town
from: Joe Frankiewicz
date: 1996-08-22 18:46:22
subject: Re: USR 33.6vi negitiatio

-> Think they're gradually getting this back together now following
-> their "re-structuring"  And this was only on incoming 3429-ers.  What
-> I'm on about is the failure to negotiate a 3429 symbol rate connect,
-> if the link supports, from a Zoom to a Courier.  But:  Surprise!
-> Disable your 3200 rate with s54=80 (which includes disabling V8CI) or
-> for the 92MHz Sportster s54=16 and, Whammo!  3429 
->
-> I re-iterate that it's "modem apartheid" since Skokie is not exactly
-> deficient in programming skills.  And how come this exhibits itself
-> over the entire V34 consumer range, irrespective of chipset?


It doesn't occur with _all_ v.34 modems, only those that fail to
properly indicate estimated channel capacity and/or preferred symbol
rate during the handshake.

Joe
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