Re: Regarding "Gibberish" Lines During Login

[Charles Boisvert and Catherine Clinton]

>if you are seeing gibberish, you are connecting at the wrong
>speed for your modem.  Never should you see gibberish!
>Anytime I see gibberish with my
>old PS2 with a 2400 baud USR Courier modem, I "CTRL C" break and start
>over.

Hold on...  I have never connected with Arachne without seeing gibberish on
the terminal at some point.  Until recently,  it went like this:

- modem initialises and dials
- asks for user id and waits,  then password and waits.  I login.
- As soon as I log in,  there's *gibberish* first character is a { (or is
it a }).
- I press F7 key to get back to Arachne.

A couple of months ago my ISP changed its system.  I've had trouble logging
in since.  It goes like this:

- modem initialises and dials
- no user id or password,  no waiting
- *gibberish* on the terminal
- I press F7 key to get back to Arachne
- I usually get the Internet connection but usuallly no mail access.

I'd always thought it was an authentication problem,  probably at my ISP.
I was looking at other ISPs instead.  Is that a speed problem then?

Charles