Russell, at 08:25 on Mar 06 1996, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

BG> Did you change anything at all on your end within the last 12 hours?  I 
BG> had my first CONNECT 28800/V34/NONE in a dozen-odd calls, at 0638 this 
BG> morning, Mar 6. If not, it would seem the problem is still lurking, waiting 
BG> to bite.

RB> I think it is a software problem on Pauls end,

Dunno, the change was so dramatic and so sudden that I wouldn't be at all
surprised to learn that Paul has changed something somewhere.  If not, I
have some real unresolved problems at this end.  If it was dodgy lines, I'd
expect the problem to be intermittent or occasional, but the transition was
quite obvious here.  One night it was great, just a few hours later, it was
shit.

These are my last 12 connects to Paul.  Those which say "aborted"
were actual connects where the modems just sat there doing bugger all.

=======================================================
# 04 Mar 22:32:18.66 CONNECT 28800/ARQ/V34/LAPM/V42BIS
# 05 Mar 06:46:55.87 CONNECT 26400/ARQ/V34/LAPM/V42BIS
# 05 Mar 10:32:35.34 CONNECT 26400/ARQ/V34/LAPM/V42BIS
# 05 Mar 16:50:57.78 CONNECT 26400/ARQ/V34/LAPM/V42BIS
# 05 Mar 21:36:38.06 CONNECT 26400/ARQ/V34/LAPM/V42BIS

Then overnight, just 9 hours later...

# 06 Mar 06:37:08.25 CONNECT 28800/V34/NONE

: 06 Mar 06:43:23.53 Dialing 02-436-1785
! 06 Mar 06:43:53.69 Connection attempt aborted

: 06 Mar 06:46:17.12 Dialing 02-436-1785
! 06 Mar 06:46:30.19 Connection attempt aborted

# 06 Mar 06:48:43.06 CONNECT 28800/V34/NONE

: 06 Mar 06:50:03.50 Dialing 02-436-1785
! 06 Mar 06:50:14.59 Connection attempt aborted

# 06 Mar 06:50:46.19 CONNECT 21600/ARQ/V34/LAPM/V42BIS
; (I forced this speed to reliably collect email)

# 06 Mar 17:23:42.85 CONNECT 28800/V34/NONE
=========================================================

Now correlate the above with the following Rx/Tx levels.

===================================================
# 04 Mar 15:30:54.40 Recv/Xmit Level (-dB)    33/12
# 04 Mar 18:42:24.88 Recv/Xmit Level (-dB)    32/12
# 04 Mar 19:16:13.03 Recv/Xmit Level (-dB)    32/11
# 04 Mar 22:32:32.47 Recv/Xmit Level (-dB)    32/12
# 05 Mar 06:47:17.12 Recv/Xmit Level (-dB)    36/11
# 05 Mar 10:32:55.28 Recv/Xmit Level (-dB)    36/12
# 05 Mar 16:51:12.53 Recv/Xmit Level (-dB)    33/11
# 05 Mar 21:36:52.75 Recv/Xmit Level (-dB)    33/11
# 06 Mar 06:51:27.03 Recv/Xmit Level (-dB)    33/13
# 06 Mar 17:23:57.78 Recv/Xmit Level (-dB)    47/12
====================================================

Pretty consistent, apart from that abortionate -47dBm on the last call.

These are Dave's stats by comparison...

====================================================
# 04 Mar 18:43:47.88 Recv/Xmit Level (-dB)    28/14
# 04 Mar 19:21:46.28 Recv/Xmit Level (-dB)    27/12
# 05 Mar 06:48:19.50 Recv/Xmit Level (-dB)    24/14
# 05 Mar 16:52:19.15 Recv/Xmit Level (-dB)    25/11
# 05 Mar 21:37:51.87 Recv/Xmit Level (-dB)    24/15
# 06 Mar 06:47:25.37 Recv/Xmit Level (-dB)    24/14
# 06 Mar 17:25:05.60 Recv/Xmit Level (-dB)    24/14
====================================================

Again, quite consistent.  And always a 28800/28800 connect.  You wouldn't
know it, but half of those are from Dave's V.34 Sportster too.  :)

RB> Maybe if he did what I did and just reformatted his drives.
RB> His problems would be over, I know mine are. 

Yeah, good point.  How about it, Paul?  :)

Regards, Bill

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