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

DM>  Still having the occasional non-connect. And I have enable LAP-M 
                      ^^^^^^^^^^
                      
That's a far cry from 1 in 3 or whatever it was you were saying.

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.

It could be a bad line, if it normally works, but occasionally
doesn't.

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

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