On Thursday August 01 1996, Simon Byrnand wrote to John Piper ...

 JP> I have a new user logging on now. He's just completed the new user
 JP> registration questionnaire, and when asked what sort of modem he has
 JP> he entered Spirit Viper V.34. Yet despite this, he only connected to my
 JP> Courier at 2400/ARQ/V34/LAPM. Has anyone else experienced such a slow
 JP> connect speed between Spirit Vipers and Couriers? Trev?

 SB> One possibility - the user may have their com port speed set really low
 SB> like 2400, forcing the modem to connect at only 2400, even though its
 SB> using V34. And when you consider that Bitcom, (bundled with Bitware)
 SB> defaults to 2400 for the com port speed, and is very often the first
 SB> comms program that a new modem user comes across, its not surprising.

This is probably exactly what happened.

 SB> Another possibility is that you're using something like Frontdoor,
 SB> which doesnt correctly recognise connects at 21600, 24000, and 26400
 SB> without a bit of judicious patchup work.

FrontDoor certainly DOES recognise said connect speeds without patchups.

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

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