On Mar 03, 1996 at 17:55, Bill Grimsley of 3:640/305.9 wrote:

 db>> Tried that - even tried -9dBm and -8dBm;  it didn't work.  -9dBm got me
 db>> a 28.8Kbps connect to Dave Drummond, though.
 BG>
 BG> Oh dear.  Of course, it has been said that too strong a signal can be
 BG> just as bad as one which is too weak.

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

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

Yeah, entirely probable that one would become confused with all this
information flowing around.  That's why I'm trying to analyse so little of
it, leaving that job to good ol' Paul
"I-have-no-life-outside-my-modem" Edwards.  ;-)

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

 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?

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

Of course, one wonders why two M34Fs can sing quite happily to each other
across "the same lines" at a lower transmit level whereas M34F to
either Viper or USR fails to reach 28.8Kbps.

 BG> I sure don't.  :)

Quirks are never easy to debug, but always lead to a simple solution.  It's
always the penultimate semicolon in the code.  I'm actually learning a lot
from this exercise regarding the latest modulation techniques.  From
anything that doesn't get automagically deleted, anyway.

Cheers..

    - dave
    d.begley{at}ieee.org

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