-=> Quoting Arthur Marsh to Meng-Shi Lim <=-

 ML> Notice that in the call summary, retrain and rate 
 ML> renegotiate are different entities.
 
 ML> I suspect that the STD BBS modem is a USR Courier. Could the 
 ML> Courier be so good that it can handle poor STD line so 
 ML> much better than what a high-end Netcomm can't even do 
 ML> at a local exchange?

 AM> Well the USR Courier is proably better than the Netcomm smartmodems.
 AM> It could also be that the transmission level of the Netcomms are too
 AM> high or too low or has an impedence mismatch with the exchange
 AM> line-card. 

That's probably the case. I just connected to Xircom's BBS in Sydney
(from Geelong) at 28.8 v34. There was no renegs or retrains or
retransmit requests to indicate any problem with the line.

BTW, my ISP has just upgraded the number of their modems and their
bandwidth to enable ISDN dial-ins. They also now have some sort of
special connections to the exchange using whiz bang optical interface
cards which they say make them an extension of the local exchange.
Whatever it was they did appear to have alleviate my previous problem
greatly. I was able to maintain a line speed (judging from the figures
indicated by the System Monitor of Win95) of between 26.4 and 28.8k.
Over the course of a 4-hour + of surfing I had 6 retrains and the line
speed at disconnection was 26.4k. Not bad.


mslim{at}ne.com.au


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