Rod, at 07:02 on Apr 13 1996, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

RS> Here are the stats to Paul just before those two calls to Dave.

RS> Freq     Level
RS> 150     36
RS> 300     26
RS> 450     24
RS> 600     24
RS> 750     24
RS> 900     24
RS> 1050     25
RS> 1200     25
RS> 1350     26
RS> 1500     26
RS> 1650     27
RS> 1800     28
RS> 1950     28
RS> 2100     29
RS> 2250     29
RS> 2400     30
RS> 2550     31
RS> 2700     31
RS> 2850     32
RS> 3000     33
RS> 3150     34
RS> 3300     35
RS> 3450     38
RS> 3600     45
RS> 3750     54

Christ, any wonder that I was having trouble with Paul as well!  Given FO
between exchanges, that extra 10dBm can only be due to the line between
Paul and his own exchange being pretty piss-poor, as I already suspected.

RS> Recv/Xmit Level (-dBm)   30.4/13.0
RS> SNR             ( dB )   36.8

I'd love to see those same stats with a Courier on Paul's end too.  The Rx
level is around 5-7dB better than my own stats to Paul, but still shitty.

RS> Usual nutty close to 10db vertical shift of the whole curve.

Yeah, dunno whether to blame the USR-Rockwell syndrome (which gave a 5dB
shift in my tests), or Paul's lines.  Or maybe ~5dB for each might be
fairer.

Have you tried calling any other Couriers yet, like Poe for example?

Regards, Bill

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