Is this normal?

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From: Ian Golton
Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 00:00

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Current news server difficulties notwithstanding, whenever I try and
connect to Demon (mail, news, WWW, whatever) I only manage a connection
first/second time about 10% of the time.

The rest of the time it takes 3-9 attempts to get a connection, with
failures usually giving an "Error: 678: there is no answer" message.

My question is: is this a "normal" service from Demon?  Once I connect
(usually at 31200, sometimes at 33600) everything is generally OK - so do I
just have to get used to making several attmpts or is something amiss?

IanG

P.S. I use a US Robotics Sportster/voice 33600, call in on the Energis ROMP
number and use W95 explorer/news reader/mail and DUN.

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From: "Ian Golton" <IanG@youfb.demon.co.uk>
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Date: 1997/05/12
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