CompuServe Messages

I'm pretty sure there were other factors involved. File corruption is a very serious problem and if the network drivers allow themselves to do that, they would be pretty much worthless. When too many people start sending and receiving blocks of data through the network, many of those packets are lost. The endless retransmissions are the delays you see. If a packet arrives corrupted, the network driver will promptly reject it. If a certain packet gets retransmitted too many times, you would have a DOS error saying so. But under no circumstance a corrupted file would be allowed to be written. I'm making this a big point as I see people blaming the Network and overseen the real cause of the problem. If you switch the network and the problem goes away, you probably moved the problem someplace else. If the cause of the problem was the interaction between the network drivers and some other faulty driver or TSR, nothing can guarantee you this same driver or TSR won't disturb somebody else down the road.