Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!maytag!xenitec!zswamp!root
From: root@zswamp.fidonet.org (Geoffrey Welsh)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Slow T2500 transfer with long distance calls
Message-ID: <7007.27DCEB19@zswamp.fidonet.org>
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 91 02:01:34 EST
Organization: Izot's Swamp BBS - Kitchener, Ontario

Christoph Splittgerber (chris@alderan.uucp ) wrote:

 >1) I get the CONNECT/FAST/UUCP
 >   I send <CR>
 >2) I get the half of the announcement from the remote host. 
 >E.g:

 >   University of Whatever, Public Access Un

 >3) Then a very strange delay for about 30 sec.
 >4) Then the second half of the announcement from the remote 
 >host. E.g:

 >                                           ix System
 >   Login as guest or nuucp
 >   login:

   The modems are probably retraining.

   It is highly likely that the other end has not properly configured 
handshaking between their modem and host, so data has been lost while the 
modems retrained.
 

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