PE> Yep, I've got a "RING" followed by "NO CARRIER" here, 12
PE> seconds after the ring.  Followed soon after by a connect
PE> with V42bis at 9600.  If you gather some stats, you might
PE> want to see if say forcing LAPM without compression helps any.

DM> Still having the occasional non-connect. And I have enable LAP-M
DM> only with no compression. I'm really at a loss where to go from here.
DM> I know it's not the modem, because it worked OK at another suburb, and
DM> a different PC brought home, with the same modem, also played havoc.

DM> I had thought it was the serial I/O cable, but that
DM> fixed the slow upload speeds but not the bad connects.

That does appear to be the problem the Spirit has getting a connect at times.
That does appear to be sensitive to something about the phone line detail.

--- PQWK202