Rod, at 08:45 on Mar 01 1996, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

RS> In fact you got the same handshaking problem
RS> with the Spirit, albeit at a rather lower frequency.

Yep, I'll agree with that, which says nothing good about the S2 at all.

BG> which does indeed use an OEM Rockwell chipset.

RS> And that sample is too small to say anything
RS> much useful about rockwells in general.

Not much I can do about that from my end though.

RS> And session negotiation failure is a a completely different
RS> issue to getting higher thruput on lousy lines too.

Sure, but the line levels still appear to be the major factor.

BG> Quite so, but the simple fact is that to date, the
BG> Courier was the only modem with which I've managed to
BG> connect perfectly every time, albeit at slightly lower
BG> link rates (but generally with an eventual shift up to 28800).

RS> Yes, you can certainly say from the data available that the Courier
RS> does a lot better than the M34F and does handshake much more reliably
RS> than the M34F and Viper on that rather poor session freq response.

No argument with that at all.

RS> Thats a completely separate issue to sledging rockwell tho,
RS> you dont actually have the evidence to substantiate THAT bit.

It's hard NOT to slag off at the Rockwells that Paul has actually used tho. 

Regards, Bill

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