David, at 13:32 on Mar 17 1996, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

DD> A call to Paul produces:

Don't you think that "produces" is a poor choice of terminology ?  :)

DD> MAXIMUS/2 v2.01 

The slack and idle turd.  Why isn't he running Maximus v3.01?

DD> V22, V22bis, V32, V32bis, V42, V42bis

What, no V.34, V.FC, MNP-4 or MNP-5 mentioned?  Bloody hell.

EQM is between 18-22 (with >10 denoted by NetComm as being "very poor").

And at -50dBm, the Rx signal level is constant...  constantly dreadful!

DD> CONNECT 28800

Is that the normal string, or was there no LAPM etc with that call? 
Anyway, given the above, I have just two comments:  

Firstly, it's probably a credit to NetComm that they actually manage to
maintain a 28800 connect with such terrible signal levels, assuming of
course that those levels DO in fact read accurately.

Secondly, those levels would also tend to indicate that whilst YOUR lines
are a know good quantity, Paul's could indeed be better.  This is probably
the first real indication we have that his lines aren't all that great,
too. 

Regards, Bill

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