On (14 Jan 95) Dieter Mirbach wrote to Bill Grimsley...



 DM> .. One fine day, Bill waffled to Paul..



 DM>  Hello Bill,



 BG> Hey Paul, will you please fix your heap-of-shit Spirit, or piss it

 BG> off and buy a real modem?  On at least six different occasions in the

 BG> last fortnight, the modems negotiate, then just as I'd expect a

 DM> connect

 BG> message, the sequence starts again, but just with a single tone which

 BG> continues until I drop carrier.  Once or twice I could handle, but

 BG> every second day is a royal PITA, especially at STD rates.



 DM>  Do you have a Maestro ? I don't know if that is relevant, but I 

 DM>  have the same problems.



 BG> BTW, this happens as late as 0830 DST (I simply gave up after that).



 DM>  It happens anytime, but since I call around 2300-2400, it seems 

 DM>  to happen most noticeably then.



 DM>  BTW when I was in QLD, the problem did not occur once, and I 

 DM>  called at least 6 times - the failure rate in Syd is usually 

 DM>  50%.



 DM>  I thought it was the phone line in Syd, but then after I got 

 DM>  back I had no failed negotiations because I was using the laptop 

 DM>  instead of the desktop PC that I had in the past. So I thought  

 DM>  I had a crook serial port or cable.



 DM>  Until last night. Failed negotiation.



 DM>  So it's either the phone line or the modem. And I was pretty 

 DM>  sure you had a Maestro.



the maestro 144m that i use (not own) seems to get through ok every

time, i can't remember the last time that negotiation failed.



                        Keith



... Or make him towel-boy in the deviant sex-offenders wing.



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