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From: dts@pwllheli.sw.stratus.com (Daniel Senie)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: PEP -vs- MNP (Class 9)
Keywords: PEP
Message-ID: <951@lectroid.sw.stratus.com>
Date: 22 Mar 90 23:18:27 GMT
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In article <627@braaten.doit.sub.org>, ed@braaten.doit.sub.org (Ed
Braaten) writes:
>
> >To or from France, PEP does not work, and V.32 with MNP4 will stay up
> 
> What do you mean by "PEP does not work".  Is it because the French PTT 
> doesn't authorize the use of PEP modems in France, or did you actually
> find that using a PEP modem in the USA to connect to a PEP modem in
> France didn't work?   

We have tried numerous times. The telebits keep negotiating the number
of carriers and number of bits per carrier in PEP mode until none are
left. Several attempts have been made with calls originating both in
France and U.S.A. with no luck.

We felt very lucky to have purchased V.32 since it does survive the
transatlantic lines...

I'm not sure what it is about the French PTT, but something about it
does actually cause PEP to give up. Any comments from Telebit would be
interesting...

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