It tis not a phone line issue. 3Com has admitted there is an issue here and is aware of what the cause is. I get a message a month regarding this topic from customers. When it comes up, the subscribers are usually on the fringe of the 56k area. My biggest competitor runs Ascends and when they call it, they get a FortySomething connect just about every time. It is a true connect too, we've tested the throughput. They have NEVER obtained a v.90 connect through us at the same location using the same PC, modem and phone line. We currently have 12 CT1 spans running in Casper. Some are on quads with netservers and others are hiperarcs with hiperdsps. We get lots of v90 connects on all the chassis.
It's a phone line issue not properly addressed by 3Com modem code. I deleted the mail where John Powell explained what exactly was wrong with the line, but he said (a year ago?) that a fix was worked on.. I don't know about Ascend, but PM3 modem code is way worse than 3Com, so stick with it and be patient :-) It seems that Cisco modem code is much better at this, too. Martin - To unsubscribe to usr-tc, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe usr-tc" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message.