what you need is digital end to end for the 56k stuff to work.
carl
On Fri, 29 Aug 1997, Tim Hodges, Triangle Telephone Cooperative Assoc. wrote:
> One more observation about PM-3's generally. We use Ch/T1. I don't have
> any choice because it will be long time or never till our switches are
> upgraded to ISDN. My hunch from reading the list is that PM-3's fed with
> PRI have MUCH better connect rates and better connections generally.
>
> Tim Hodges
> 7thodges@3rivers.net
>
>
> At 12:13 PM 8/29/97 -0400, you wrote:
> >We downgraded all our units and are waiting for a comos revision before we
> >try implementing the 56k cards/3.7 comos again. I would like to add to this
> >thread that the pm3's running old cards and 3.5c6 is *ROCK SOLID* and we
> >are *very* happy with them. It is just that the implementation of the 56k
> >and/or 3.7 is not ready for prime time. I am patient and will wait till the
> >bugs to be ironed out before making any final judgements. Anyone know when
> >the new comos update will be out to fix the usr 33.6 and other dropping
> >connection problems? Livingston? It would be nice if LE would keep the list
> >informed with status reports, etc. instead of ignoring the obvious swelling
> >of discontent among PM owners.
> >
> >Enough said,
> >
> >Chris Evoy
> >HyperNet
> >cevoy@lonet.ca
> >http://www.lonet.ca
> >
> >
> >----------
> >> From: Jake Messinger <jake@ams.com>
> >> To: portmaster-users@livingston.com
> >> Subject: Is anyone happy with the 56k cards?
> >> Date: Friday, August 29, 1997 10:26 AM
> >>
> >> I'm seeing enough email on the list to concern me about the performance
> >of
> >> the PM 3.
> >>
> >> I would like to know, out of those of you who have the pm 3's with the
> >56k
> >> cards:
> >>
> >> Are you happy with them?
> >> Are they working okay?
> >> Are they faster than the old cards?
> >> Are they slower?
> >> For those who replaced pm 2's with pm 3's+56k, where are you on the
> >> functionality scale? Are you customers getting worse service? The same
> >> service, or BETTER service?
> >>
> >> I ask this for a few reasons:
> >>
> >> 1. I have a customer who is quite unhappy with the performance of the pm
> >> 3 with the 56k cards. He says he is LOOSING customers because of it.
> >> He wants to go back to pm 2e's.
> >>
> >> 2. I need to make a decision as to whether the PM 3 is something I want
> >to
> >> continue to use, sell and support
> >>
> >> 3. Livingston, as you may know, has filed with the SEC to sell stocks. I
> >> just printed the 108 page filing. I want to make a recommendation as to
> >> whether to invest in the company or not and the performance of the PM 3
> >is
> >> critical to that recommendation.
> >>
> >>
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> >> Jake Messinger 713-772-6690 jake@ams.com
> >> Advanced Medical Systems, Inc. jake@uh.edu
> >> 8300 Bissonnet #400
> >> Houston, Texas 77074 http://www.ams.com/~jake
> >>
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