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From: RANCK@VTVM1.BITNET.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: re: error correction without warning . . .
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Date: Mon, 2-Mar-87 10:45:56 EST
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As Geoff points out there may be no way to tell when your
modem is doing error correction, although some have lights that indicate
error correction activity.
  Then there is the question of error correction at the various levels
in the process.  If your software does error correction and your modem
does error correction and the network does error correction, each layer
adding a few more bytes, you end up with more bytes of error
detection/correction than data, and of course more bytes means more chance
of error.  In some cases, though I can't think of any, the error correcting
protocols might interfere with each other.
   I suppose the answer is to maintain a high degree of cynicism because
the world is imperfect and error correcting protocols are too.

Bill Ranck