John, at 21:33 on Oct 29 1996, you wrote to Russell Brooks ...

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JP> Unfortunately. :-( Ack. This has consistently proven to be 
JP> true, since every connect I've had with a 33.6k M34F has 
JP> only topped 31200/31200. I'm not sure what sort of connects 
JP> my Courier manages to the Dynalinks and KTXs. I polled 
JP> David's system just a few minutes ago. Connected at 28800

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my logs showed:

# 29 Oct 20:12:45 BINK Connect 31200/Arq/V34/Lapm/V42Bis
* 29 Oct 20:12:47 BINK Lateline BBS (Line 1) (3:712/841{at}fidonet)
* 29 Oct 20:12:47 BINK Remote Uses FrontDoor 2.20c.mL/AX0002B0
: 29 Oct 20:12:47 BINK SysOp: John Piper from Sydney, Australia
  29 Oct 20:12:47 BINK Phone: +61-2-9579-6564
  29 Oct 20:12:47 BINK Flags: H16,V34,VFC,V42B,CM,XA
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# 29 Oct 20:12:58 BINK Speed                  31200/28800

i think that on these longer trunk calls that the amount of other traffic
may have some bearing.  Perhaps you should try during a "low
traffic" time.

David
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