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I have been using the new Ipswich PoP for a couple of weeks now and have
a number of problems with the modems there, these problems are *much*
more noticeable than if I dial one of Demon's London numbers so I think
they are something to do with differences at Ipswich (or at least with
the new PoPs and servers).

I get quite a lot of failed connects for various reasons:-
    1 - Nothing happens after the connect message, this is usually when
    the V42 messages have been slower to appear than normal, i.e. I can
    nearly always predict when it's going to do nothing after the
    CONNECT.

    2 - Modems fail to negotiate V42, the connection still goes ahead
    but obviously is more prone to errors.

    3 - Modems warble to each other until the wait for CONNECT times out.

    4 - Modem won't hang up.  This is definitely the *worst* problem, if
    I get *any* [COMW] warnings then my link is dead and I can't hangup
    my modem to re-dial.  I have to power down my system to unhang the
    modem, dropping DTR or whatever does nothing.

It *feels* like the above problems occur on certain modems (lines on the
hunt group?) as they very rarely occur twice in a row.  My modem is a
Dynatech (i.e.cheapo) V34 internal.  As I say it has no problems with
the London numbers, or CIX or another local ISP's modems, just with the
Demon PoP at Ipswich.

Finally I only ever seem to connect successfully to very few different
servers, is this right?  I think I have see 11, 14 and 15 plus possibly
16 in the du-finch-xx.access.demon.net message.

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