On (13 Jan 95) Bill Grimsley wrote to Paul Edwards...



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

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

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

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

 BG> until I drop carrier.  Once or twice I could handle, but every second day

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



Hi Bill



Try one of those old-fashioned USR modems  - I've only

had the odd bad connection here, and often I could hear it was

crappy during the negotiation.



Cheers



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