Gene, at 17:46 on Aug 05 1996, you wrote to David Drummond ...

DD>> Geez, you fellows must have lousy phone lines.  I get 
DD>> regular 33,600 connects from a site more than 1000 miles 
DD>> away.

GL> Many of our Canadian participants report the same thing.  
GL> The one 33K6 connect I got was to a system in British 
GL> Columbia.  I think a lot of it has to do with the equipment 
GL> in use by our telcos.  Canada is using a lot of Northern 
GL> Telecom equipment while many of us in the lower 48 states 
GL> have Western Electric equipment to deal with.

I think Australia has the "advantage" of all the equipment being
owned/operated by the same company.

David
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