[BADROTOFINGER]

I have no idea, but ill take a layman's guess. Could it be that the communications network is much denser now? Kind of like the fact that practially every square inch of the country is covered for cell phone use, when only 5 years ago, it wasnt? Just a guess...JFK

[Britton J Wingfield]

I think it is still normal to have a brief interruption in downlink. I'm just a geeky layman, but that's th eimpression I'm under.