RB> John, 
RB> Did you do any  Link diagnostics between your lifestyle and Pauls Courier,
RB> If so, I would be interested in seeing some.

No I haven't done any link diagnostics since most of my connects with
Paul's musical-chair modems have been fairly uneventful, notwithstanding a
few occasional non-ec connects which I attributed to shitty lines at my
end.

RB> I expect that you would have connected at 28800/28800 ALL the time.
RB> Tell us more.

Well, around 98% of the time I get solid 28.8k link rates on both
transmit/receive freqs.

JL>> You passed the "goose" stage a while ago.  You're now
entering the 
JL>> "Raving
JL>> loony stage" :-)

RB> I'm waiting for him to finally lay a golden egg. (settle on a Courier)

Not unless Paul overcomes his fixation with modem behavioural differences -
re: Autobauding with the Courier, etc.

JL>> BTW, What modem did you have online at approx 12:30PM ~ 27/02/96?. I 
JL>> couldn't
JL>> obtain an EC connect at all with your modem and hence had to resort to a 
JL>> forced
JL>> V.22bis/NO-EC link. Any ideas?

RB> Spung then, It isn't just USR's getting no EC.

Never once would the Courier reject an EC-connect, even when I know quite
positively that my lines can be sub-standard at times.  Either that, or
Pauls modem has EC timing problems on initial handshaking.

RB> The man must be playing silly buggers.

:)


John.
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