Sorry for butting in..

 MR> Dynalink don't agree and my ISP reckons that I _have_ to have V.42
 MR> enabled for
 MR> their modems (still trying to find out what sort they are)

He's talking about disabling the V.42 detection phase.. Well you might
as well disable V.42bis with &k0 otherwise you'll get nice long
pauses..  Disabling the V.42detection phase seems to help with
connections to Spirit Viper 28800's..

Angus

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