> People such as yourself dismiss technology too quickly calling it
> old and inferior.
Define quickly, please...10 years old is too quickly?? It may still be useful
in some areas, but it is old and inferior. Do you support 300 baud, too?
> If it's not glitzy and the latest thing on the market
> it can't possibly be any good. The constant upgrade! upgrade! upgrade!
Not true. No one said we wanted to support only 28.8. But if you are in an
"advanced" marketplace where you can use a PM3 then why degrade the machine?
If it will not accept incoming POTs lines, only PRI (not available still in my
market) and eventually chan. T1, then it is not designed for "older" markets.
Stick with your pm2e, why change?? We are not saying everyone must have the
newest thing, but at some point you have to replace the old rotted beams with
newer ones before the roof caves in.
> cycle some people seem to go into all the time never takes into account
> if the upgrade is going to be benefical (if not damaging).
If you do not think web browsing is beneficial at 28.8 vs 2400 you need some
serious help... ;-) It is economic for us to not support 2400. A 2400 user is
going to tie up my line AND bandwidth for 8 hours downloading that cool new
game that the 28800 user downloading in 1.5 hours (after which he disconnected
to play the game, thus freeing that line for another user). We cannot make a
profit if we cannot maintain the 10 to 1 ratio and still not have busy signals.
> difference in what it does.. it just costs six times as much'..
Six times? Where ya getting your numbers? No one sells 2400 baud modems
around here or anywhere within a 2 hours drive. I did some checking and found
that I could order a 2400 baud for $280, though.
2400 is still a viable protocol in some arenas, but except for the continued
trading of used 2400 modems, where ya going to continue to find them? Our
Telco faces this problem right now. They have laptops with burned out 2400s
that they used to connect from remote. They cannot get the 28.8s to negotiate
down well, so now they are looking to have to upgrade the "server" sites all at
once. Whereas they could have gradually upgraded over the years in small steps
to keep things affordable.
The purpose of civilization is to advance (upgrade), unless you are Amish and even they
have had to upgrade in the past few decades...
Technical Support - Applied InterNet Solutions
- Jeremy T. Elston - System Engineer
(TechSupport@Greenwood.net)
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