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

 Hello Rod,

 DM> Downloads are OK - no retries at all.

 RS> Thats normally cause by flow control not working. It needs to be right
 RS> in a number of places, the modem, the comms prog, the serial port and
 RS> the serial cable to the modem. Any one of those with a problem can see
 RS> the modem try to tell Telix to pause and it doesnt notice. So it keeps
 RS> sending and so that fucks up as modem in put buffer overflows etc.

 True. I've been lazy about chasing up the problem

 RS> It doesnt affect downloads coz Telix doesnt
 RS> normally need to tell the modem to pause.

 RS> It can also be due to the comms driver with OS2 but you say is DOS.

 Yes, it was.
 
 At one stage, I took home my work 486, and the same problem 
 occurred again, ruling out either PC. But having a think about 
 it, I retained the modem, and the modem cable, and the cable 
 being one of those IDC DB25's could be the problem. They don't 
 take too well to much flexing, especially at the outer 
 conductors. 
 
 I'll replace it in the next day or two.
 
 Would this also account for the unsuccessful modem negotiation 
 that occurs occasional  About one in 3 times, I get a failed 
 connect.
 
 Dieter
 

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