On Thu 15 Aug at 19:24 Hamish Moffatt (3:632/552{at}fidonet) wrote to Arthur Marsh:

 HM> A friend of mine notes that his Spirit Viper V.34 connects 
 HM> much more reliably with the bank of Dataplex V.34s at our 
 HM> university than his previous modem, an Avtek V.34, which 
 HM> typically connected only 1 time in 2 or 3. Seems NetComm 
 HM> have more problems that Spirit.

The problem with the Motorola Lifestyle / Avtek Flashmodem was that the
default setting was to train on High Bit Error Rate, and *not* to retrain. 

If these settings are changed to train on Medium Bit Error Rate *TH1 and
retrain on Medium Bit Error Rate %R2 (and &R0 for hardware
handshaking), the modems will happily maintain a connection for days on end
whereas a pair of Dataplex DPX-225-01's would spontaneously disconnect
after a few hours.

 HM> Are these Spirits made by Digicom still?

Wouldn't know.

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