On Saturday, November 09 1996, Ian Smith wrote to John Piper ...

 IS> Urgh.  4 retrains for 6K of data?  And why are you getting so many
 IS> blocks of 2 or three characters?

I have no idea. We weren't transferring any files; just retraining to see
if a 33600 link was possible.

 JP> Blers 185

 IS> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Blergh!

Yes, blergh. I don't know what can be done about that, unfortunately.

 IS> Get your line (or Ludi's) seen to, looks like.

My line is quite fine. I've never had any problems with it in the past.
What exactly causes block errors? Is it a line-specific issue, or something
as a result of hardware or software issues at this end?

John (japp{at}mpx.com.au)

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