.. One fine day, Paul waffled to Dieter..

 Hello Paul,

 DM>  Still having the occasional non-connect. And I have enable LAP-M 
 PE>                   ^^^^^^^^^^
 PE> 
 PE> That's a far cry from 1 in 3 or whatever it was you were saying.
 
 It was getting better, and now it's back to one in 4, or so.

 DM>  only with no compression. I'm really at a loss where to go from 
 DM>  here. I know it's not the modem, because it worked OK at another 
 DM>  suburb, and a different PC brought home, with the same modem, 
 DM>  also played havoc.

 PE> It could be a bad line, if it normally works, but occasionally
 PE> doesn't.
 
 Telling the Telecom tech that could be tricky.

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

 PE> Did you get a multimeter and find out which wire was bust?
 PE> BFN.  Paul.

 The IDC connector in general was looking a bit flakey. It looks 
 like someone had removed the DB25 connector, and relocated the 
 same connector about an inch or two up the cable. With IDC 
 connectors, once they are removed, you cannot reliable re-use 
 them. The tiny forks that peirce the insulation and crimp the 
 wires are deformed for the first crimp connection, but are 
 useless for subsequent crimp operations.

 Dieter

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