While sitting on cloud 9, Arthur Marsh said to all something about 
    line quality variability

 AM> On my regular call to Denver, Colorado, USA I used to get 16800 bps
 AM> connects most of the time, with about 10 percent of the calls
 AM> connecting but failing due to low S/N ratio, failure to negotiate
 AM> error correcting protocols and retraining. 
 AM> Checking the logs for the past couple of months I've found that most
 AM> calls now connect at 24000 bps (up to 34 dB S/N ratio), with some
 AM> calls at 16800 bps, and a few really bad calls (down to a 7200 bps /
 AM> V.34 call with 9dB reported S/N ratio).  
 AM> As successive calls can be bad then good, it doesn't appear to be a
 AM> local loop or modem problem, but that different carriers in the USA
 AM> have a really mixed bag of equipment that is unmonitored )-:. 
 AM> It appears that overall the call quality has improved during the time
 AM> I've had the Motorola Codex 3266 Fast V.34 modem with 7.7 firmware,
 AM> but that the lack of accountability of some of the US carriers still
 AM> leads to situations of call quality unacceptable even for voice use. 

You can't always blame the US carriers.  Sometimes the satelite
link from australia might not be as good.


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