> It finally occured to me that with a user base of both ISDN and analog=20
> customers, it's HIGHLY unlikely that all 46 modems (48 for some of us)=20
> will ever be in use. With this in mind, are there any drawbacks to having=
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> only, say, 40 modems worth of cards in a PM-3? It will still work, right?=
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> I mean, it won't turn into a pumpkin or anything will it? :-)
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> But seriously, besides the chance that >40 analog users will all call in=
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> at one time, with no ISDN callers at all, are there any drawbacks?
We discussed that some time ago. Like the problem if you only have 40=20
modemlines and a modem-caller is on the 41 line. Does he got a busy or=20
only a silence from the portmaster? Someone from Livingston said he will=20
get busy but I haven=B4t tried myself. But we=B4ll maybe do that in future=
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because we=B4re only plans to buy a second 10-port modemcard for a total of=
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20 modems and hire 22-24 ISDN channels from the phone company (we can=20
hire 8-30 ISDN-channels) giving us a total of 20 modems and a few ISDN in=
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same time.=20
> For example, right now 11 out of 28 ports in use are ISDN calls in 1 of=
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> my POPs. The other is 5 out of 18.
Seems 4 10modemcards for a 46-48 line PM is enough for you. The=20
ISDN-callers will never be fewer.=20