On the 27/02/96, Bob waffled to Paul..

 Hello Bob,

 
 DM> My last D/L (all 40 minutes {at}2400+errors) had a grunged CRC for
 DM> one of the archives. 
 
 PE> Now THAT is disastrous.

 BL> Paul... this is *stupid*! The NetComm can't be that bad.

 Yeah ?

 BL> If Dieter is getting ZModem errors at 2400, and even ZModem is
 BL> failing, then there has to be something obviously stupid wrong - and
 BL> probably at *his* end,

 There is nothing wrong with my end. It works perfectly well all
 of the time.

 BL> seeing that it works perfectly well for most of
 BL> us and *he's* the one with the crook ZModem. Bill's story about
 BL> inferior lines does not apply to 2400 connects. It has to be something
 BL> stupid. And obvious.
 
 How do you explain that the Paul's first modem was nowhere near
 as bad, at least I could get 50% connects, and elsewhere, except
 for 3M, I have immediate and reliable connects. Bill's theory of
 marginal lines at each end is feasible

 PE> Ok, now you are calling with V42bis, which means the modems
 PE> shouldn't have any errors. However, the fact that you are doing
 PE> so many Zmodem retries suggests that there is a problem outside
 PE> the modem. 

 BL> Exactly! Dieter's end is rooted, and it must be something clever if
 BL> he's defeated ZModem too.

 Considering I had an error condition every 30 seconds or so,
 making around 80 retries during the 40 minute connect,
 having only one bad failure is not so bad.

 Dieter
 

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