Rod, at 16:21 on Mar 08 1996, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

RS> AND then there is the TINY matter of the wild claims about modem
RS> testing when you were at CHH, and that evidence NOW that there is
RS> indeed a very real problem, even if only when your home line is used.

Not any more, which makes me suspect that all was not well with the
Sportster with its 2nd V.34 ("SDS-fix") EPROM.  This V.34+ chip
is either unbelievably better, or there really was a problem with the
previous chip.  This new one stick to the lines like shit to a blanket, and
I'm now calling just about everywhere with no speed restrictions at all,
and connecting at previously unheard of link rates.  With EC as well.  Most
importantly, calls to both CHH modems now connect perfectly, even though
the lines are still obviously shit.

I'm not going to bother collecting stats any more, but have a look at these
before I piss them off (and note that although line levels haven't
improved, the connect sure has).

==================================
 Dialing 02-436-1785
 CONNECT 28800/ARQ/V34/LAPM/V42BIS
 Freq     Level
  150     38
  300     27
  450     26
  600     25
  750     25
  900     26
 1050     26
 1200     27
 1350     27
 1500     28
 1650     29
 1800     30
 1950     31
 2100     31
 2250     32
 2400     33
 2550     34
 2700     35
 2850     35
 3000     36
 3150     38
 3300     40
 3450     43
 3600     48
 3750     57
 USRobotics Sportster 33600 V.34+ Fax Link Diagnostics...
 Modulation               V.34
 Carrier Freq (Hz)        1829/1829
 Symbol Rate              3200/3200
 Trellis Code             64S-4D/16S-4D
 Nonlinear Encoding       ON/ON
 Precoding                ON/ON
 Shaping                  OFF/ON
 Preemphasis (-dB)        8/8
 Recv/Xmit Level (-dB)    32/11
 Roundtrip Delay (msec)   15
 Chars sent               20017
 Chars Received           17496
 Chars lost                   0
 Octets sent              20028
 Octets Received          17712
 Blocks sent                153
 Blocks Received            264
 Blocks resent                0
 Retrains Requested           0
 Retrains Granted             0
 Line Reversals               0
 Blers                        0
 Link Timeouts                0
 Link Naks                    0
 Data Compression         V42BIS 2048/32
 Equalization             Long
 Fallback                 Enabled
 Protocol                 LAPM 244/6
 Speed                    28800/28800
 Last Call                00:00:23
 Disconnect Reason        DISC Received
========================================

Note:  28800/LAPM with NO retrains, and NO block errors.

This EPROM also now supports SREJ as well (only with other USRs though).

Regards, Bill

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