þ Original reply from Matthew Parker of 3:711/934.31{at}fidonet...

PE> How did you know that the Netcomm was making a retraining attempt?

MP> It could of been my modem. I know when its retraining as the tst light
MP> flashes on my modem and nothing can be sent or received until about
MP> 30 seconds and the LCD on my modem says that the speed has not changed.
MP> BTW my two latest connects were 26.4 28.8.

Do you know what breed of modem Matthew runs?  Retraining at V.34 is fairly
unusual, and generally means a complete protocol failure (according to the
manual).  Normally, the modems should speed-shift, as today's logs show...

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: 11 May 07:13:56 BINK Dialing 02-436-1785
# 11 May 07:14:18 BINK Connect 26400/Arq/V34/Lapm/V42Bis
[ ... ]
# 11 May 07:14:42 BINK Speed                  28800/28800
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Regards, Bill

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