Hi Bill



 BG> got fed up with every 3rd or 4th connect failing to negotiate properly.



 RM> Get a 14400 Sweatsock!.



 BG> Why?  I've already had 3 of them -



all 14400s??



 BG>  - all different too (US/Canada internal

 BG> and external, and an Austel external), as well as 2 EPROMs in this current

 BG> V.34, with another on the way.  BTW, the 28k8 EPROMs were not bugfixes, but

 BG> upgrades from what was originally a V.FC-only Sportster (to V.34, and now

 BG> V.34+).



 RM> The only common failure I have happens when I forget to reboot

 RM> after sending a fax with WinFaxLite, and that's probably fixable

 RM> with a better init string. Apart from that, I get a funny connect

 RM> maybe once in 20, the modem rejects it cos it's not ARQ, the comms

 RM> prog redials, the next connect works.



 BG> And that's EXACTLY the same symptom which the rest of us are seeing with

 BG> Paul's Spirit, albeit considerably more frequently than you appear to.  It

 BG> ain't just the Sportsters either, as it happened with 2 Dynalinks I

 BG> "evaluated".



Apart from the "you dummy" winfax situation outlined above, I've

never had two failures in a row, so I've put it down to an

occasional bad line.



Maybe you need to move north.



Cheers



ps dunno about the "need for speed" - a guy at work does a bit of

internet hunting, and the last file he downloaded averaged 0.3

kbaud. The 2400 baud modem built into his bubby Dauphin palmtop

works just fine, thank you...



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