Tim Hodges
At 01:55 PM 8/29/97 -0400, you wrote:
>they kety to getting the pm3's to work as advertised with ct1's is that
>you *MUST8 have digital end to end. from what you are reporting, my guess
>is that the telco doing what they did to us antil we got eductated:
>taking 24 pots/centrex lines into a channel bank and delivering us service
>that has undergone a digital-analog-digital conversion.
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>what you need is digital end to end for the 56k stuff to work.
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> carl
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>On Fri, 29 Aug 1997, Tim Hodges, Triangle Telephone Cooperative Assoc. wrote:
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>> 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
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>> 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
>> >
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>> >> 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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