🚀 go-pugleaf

On Fri, 06 Nov 1998 18:46:35 GMT, uk@nospam.demon.co.uk (Nempnett
Thrubwell) wrote:

>On Fri, 06 Nov 1998 08:55:27 +0000, peter@cara.demon.co.uk (Peter
>Ceresole) wrote:
>
>>Errrr... I'm still very much in the dark (so no change there, then). I'm
>>using a V34+ Courier. I've been hearing the V8 tone on K56 enabled Ascend
>>connects, and I still hear it now they are K56/V90. I don't hear it on the
>>X2/V90 enabled 3Com servers.
>
>>Obviously, my V34+ modem won't be sending any kind of V8 tone. I was
>>concluding that V8 is part of K56flex, but not of X2 or of V90. Is this
>>wrong?
>
>I thought I could hear the initial tone whichever I dialled in to, now
>I'll have to listen more carefully, where were those cotton buds?
>
>Hmmm, I just checked, and I *definitely* hear the initial "peep" using
>the 3Coms on the Green Romp, so if they didn't send it I must have.
>
>Hmmm further, I'm sure I started to hear the tone when K56 was enabled
>and I only had a 28.8 or 33.6 modem. . .so that must have come from
>the Ascends. As to USR/3Coms prior to V90, can't remember.
>
><confused>

OK, I've turned up the modem speaker and concentrated, then tried both
Energis (Ascend) and Green (3Com), I can confidently state that I was
lying - for certain definitions of lie. ;)

Both connects start with a high pitched tone. But where the Ascend
follows with a "bleat", the 3Com does a "tinkle". Hell, you listen to
them both and see if you can describe things any better! ;) I was
making the wrong assumption as to what "V8 tone" referred to.

Wouldn't a Real Audio breakdown of the negotiations be useful,
delineating which end produced which noise? You may remember Reginald
Gardiner (?) with his train noises. . .