Rod, at 09:49 on Mar 24 1996, you wrote to Bob Lawrence...

BL> Bill is the most experienced one here with modems.

RS> Who ended up face down in the much when he proclaimed that the
RS> handshaking problems he saw with the Spirit would go away instantly
RS> when the Spirit was replaced with ANYTHING else, and ended up looking
RS> pretty fucking silly indeed when the problem got HEAPS worse when it was.

Oh crap.  At 14400 V.32bis, the problem DID disappear.

RS> Who also proclaimed that the handshaking problem must certainly be
RS> due to Pauls 'poor line' or user error or both, and ended up looking
RS> damned silly indeed when a Sportster rom changed fixed that, and even
RS> sillier when an M34F/M34F pair didnt show it on those calls either.

And who could have said nothing about the EPROM change, but in the
interests of accuracy of testing, told it like it was.  Who would have
thought that a simple change of ROM code could have made such a vast
difference, especially when the previous THREE EPROMs were almost identical
in performance ?

RS> Who also proclaimed that there must be something fundamentally
RS> fucked with pauls line because he never saw any problems with
RS> V34 modems when testing hundreds of them at CHH, but who ended
RS> up face down in the mud AGAIN, when he discovered he had EVEN
RS> WORSE problems calling CHH himself from his own home line.

Not my fault that my own bad lines weren't obvious until I started calling
others with less-than-perfect lines, where the problem was compounded.

RS> That should tell you something about his analytical capabilitys.

Go fuck yourself.

Regards, Bill

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