Rod, at 10:58 on Jan 25 1996, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

BG> Ask Rod to disable retrains at his end, not yours.

RS> Its not MY modem asking for a retrain within a second of the
RS> initial connect on every single call. Thats never seen with
RS> anything except a USR, so its got to be the USR doing that.

Likely so, but I was curious to see what would happen if you disabled
retrains at your end.  Does the call continue at 14k4, or does the Courier
drop DTR?

RS> And that behaviour is completely silly, particularly on a V32bis call.

Couldn't agree more.

RS> The main question mark at the moment is whether
RS> that was just a wart in earlier USR flashrom code.

It's a few SDLs back, but there were some problems with trigger-happy
retrains, as far as I can recall.  I would hope that's been fixed by now.

PE> 5. Paul Markham's Netcomm - connections at 26400, 24000, 2400!, 14400.

BG> Lines again?  Dunno, it's extremely unusual to say the least.

RS> Cant be lines if Paul Markham doesnt get that
RS> sort of behaviour calling other systems.

I mean the lines between PM and PE.  Given my own long-term results, and
bearing in mind that everywhere else I call is at 28800 straight up, I
suspect that there could be a line problem at PE's end.

PE> to a wide variety of common modems, including all of the
PE> above. The USR Courier is falling way short of that.

BG> Shouldn't be,

RS> But clear is. And you shouldnt get such gross problems, particularly
RS> the 2400 connects, with a very basic modem config from factory.

Dunno if you read the USR_MODEMS echo, but I know you read AUST_MODEMS, and
nobody else has EVER reported similar problems with the Courier.

Maybe Paul's place is jinxed...

Regards, Bill

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