david, at 00:50 on Mar 04 1996, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

db> I'm still surprised that one night I was getting better quality lines to 
db> Queensland and Cowra than to another part of Sydney.  Bloody Telstra 
db> playing more games than a Paul Edwards musical modem fest.  Hrmph.

Dunno, I was speaking at length with Alan last night, and whilst he can't
speak for Sydney, it would seem that all inter-exchange links in Brisbane
are now FO, as well as inter-capital links, and there should be no
measurable loss on these, regardless of the distances involved.  Exchange
to sub is all copper pair, but the losses here should normally be
consistent.  I actually forgot to ask him this (damn!), but it seems to me
that any variations between calls are probably occurring in the
exchange(s).  Anything else is now a constant.

BG> Oops.  Trying to dissect too much information at once, I expect.

db> Yeah, entirely probable that one would become confused with all this 
db> information flowing around. 

Confused!?!?!?  I've been hearing V.34 connect tones in my sleep lately!

db> That's why I'm trying to analyse so little of it, leaving that job to good 
db> ol' Paul "I-have-no-life-outside-my-modem" Edwards.  ;-)

Shouldn't that read "-modems" (plural) ?  :)

db> Just to dart off in another direction - does anyone know the maximum number 
db> of logical partitions that may appear in a single extended partition?  Of 
db> course you can only have four (4) primary partitions, but I've yet to see a 
db> documented maximum for logical partitions and would like to know before I 
db> start playing around and discovering that I have to start planning all over 
db> again.

I seem to recall that logical drives are restricted only by the available
number of drive letters.  Once you reach Z, you're basically stuffed.

Caveat:  Don't take that as gospel.

db>> I've been playing with line levels against both the Spirit Viper and the
db>> USR, and with the Viper it was successful - with the USR, it made no
db>> difference.
BG>
BG> Perhaps the Viper is more sensitive to signal levels, who knows?

db> I take it as "a sign" - both being Rockwells (Viper and
M34F), perhaps if 
db> you fix your transmission level higher, you may have better luck calling 
db> Paul?  Just a thought.

Not possible on the Sportster, as they automatically vary the Tx level
according to criteria such as line levels, signal/noise ratio etc.

Neither did the Couriers have the ability to fix specific Tx levels,
although that can now be done with an undocumented S-reg with the later
SDLs.

Regards, Bill

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