BG> Hey Paul, will you please fix your heap-of-shit Spirit, or piss
BG> it off and buy a real modem?  On at least six different occasions
BG> in the last fortnight, the modems negotiate, then just as I'd expect
BG> a 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.

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

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

BG> Still sounds like a Spirit problem to me.

Sort of. But it can be atleast worked around, it used to happen
to me at one time, but a rom change at my end fixed it forever.

BG> Fucking Spirits!

They will haunt you now.

--- PQWK202