Dieter, at 14:47 on Sat, Jan 14 1995, you wrote to Bill Grimsley ...

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 
BG> the last fortnight, the modems negotiate, then just as I'd expect a 
BG> connect message, the sequence starts again, but just with a single 
BG> tone which continues until I drop carrier.

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

Nah, my USR works 100% from here, but at Jack's I was using his old V.32
Lightcomm96, which is a fairly generic Rockwell-based modem.

DM> It happens anytime, but since I call around 2300-2400, it 
DM> seems to happen most noticeably then.

Still sounds like a Spirit problem to me.

DM> BTW when I was in QLD, the problem did not occur once, and I called 
DM> at least 6 times - the failure rate in Syd is usually 50%.

Weird!  Maybe signal level has something to do with it?

DM> I thought it was the phone line in Syd, but then after I got back I 
DM> had no failed negotiations because I was using the laptop instead 
DM> of the desktop PC that I had in the past. So I thought  I had a 
DM> crook serial port or cable.

Did you try forcing separate MNP and LAPM connects to verify the cause?

DM> Until last night. Failed negotiation.

Fucking Spirits!

DM> So it's either the phone line or the modem. And I was pretty 
DM> sure you had a Maestro.

FWIW, I'd buy a lowly Zoom before I'd even consider a Maestro.  |-)

Regards, Bill

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