I seen to be having a problem here with a very large number of block errors.

Can someone tell me what causes them, so I can call Telstra and get
something done about it.

It seems rather coincidental that this problem started yesterday, the same
day that several Telstra guys were working in pits across and down the road
from where I live, and while it was raining they *didn't* have any covers
over the pits. :-(

For your viewing pleasure, here are the stats of the last call I made to OzEmail.

USRobotics Courier V.Everything Link Diagnostics...

Chars sent               143626      Chars Received          2129966
Chars lost                    0
Octets sent               71801      Octets Received         1911593
Blocks sent                7394      Blocks Received           17820
Blocks resent                 0

Retrains Requested            0      Retrains Granted              0
Line Reversals                0      Blers                      1154 ***
Link Timeouts                 1      Link Naks                     0

Data Compression       V42BIS 2048/32
Equalization           Long
Fallback               Enabled
Protocol               LAPM 244/6
Speed                  28800/28800
Last Call              00:23:17

Disconnect Reason is DTR dropped
USRobotics Courier V.Everything Link Diagnostics...

Modulation               V.34
Carrier Freq    ( Hz )   1959/1959
Symbol Rate              3429/3429
Trellis Code             64S-4D/16S-4D
Nonlinear Encoding       ON/ON
Precoding                ON/ON
Shaping                  OFF/ON
Preemphasis     (-dB )   4/6
Recv/Xmit Level (-dBm)   28.9/13.0
SNR             ( dB )   35.3
Near Echo Loss  ( dB )   7.7
Far Echo Loss   ( dB )   31.8
Roundtrip Delay (msec)   2

OK

*** This works out at 50 blers per minute :-(

Why didn't the modems train down to a slower speed? Or wouldn't this help?

Regards,
Frank

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