PE> Or would you expect V32bis modems to always connect at 14400?

RS> Certainly not at 7200, thats extremely low. I would expect that if the
RS> line at your end or mine was marginal, we would occasionally see a 12000
RS> connect and in fact I did with one particular line with the City BBS which
RS> I called daily for mail for a long time. He is on one of the most decrepit
RS> exchanges in Sydney apparently and doesnt have his lines in a rotary
RS> group, and you could see one line being a bit down performance wise. It
RS> always connected fine, sometimes at 12000 and normally did manage to fall
RS> forward up to 14400 thru the session. Occasionally it connected at 14400
RS> and fell back to 12000 for a bit and back up to 14400 too.

KR> thats odd,

Nope.

KR> the city is on the same exchange as me, and it was upgraded
KR> a bit over 3 years ago, about the time that i moved in.

That time I was talking about was before that.

KR> i always seem to get about the same results with pauls
KR> board, it used to be around 1610 cps, now it is around
KR> 1660 cps, so the 456 exchange wouldn't seem to be a problem.

Thats after the upgrade tho. And you cant use just the first
three digits to determine the exchange technology anyway.

KR> the city's lines though seem to have their own
KR> personalities, i don't know if it is the modems, the
KR> lines, or the various systems that comprise the board.

It appears to be atleast the lines coz its been visible thru modem
changes. The 'various systems that comprise the board' cant affect
the line speed stuff, just the thruput which I wasnt discussing.

Even quite geriatric exchanges arent necessarily a problem speed
wise with V32bis, in fact you get a bit more bandwidth with some
of the crossbar exchanges than you do with digital exchanges. That
primarily affects calls on the same exchange tho.

The evidence points to a particular line being a bit deficient,
coz it cant have been the exchange, coz it didnt affect all lines.
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