Re: corrupted transmissions

[Eric Fraser <fraser@now.CS.Berkeley.EDU>]

> On Mon, 17 Mar 1997, Sync wrote:
> 
> > It works great 95% of the time.  On the other 5%, it gets half
> > way down the page that it sends out some noise.  The noise looks
> > like random horizontal lines, with some dots around it.  My first
> > guess is that there was interference on the phone line, but we've
> > tried switching to other lines and having the phone company check
> > the integrity of the lines all the way up to the jack.
> 
> Ah, but it could the line on the other end that could be the problem.
> Check whether the failures are linked to particular clients fax
> numbers or whether the distribution of failures are random.

Thanks for the response.

Unfortunately it the distribution of failures is random and there are
many phone numbers that I've tried calling.  The problem has not been
linked to any particular phone number.

Does anyone have any other ideas of what to try, I'm getting desperate?

eric.