Re: Is anyone happy with the 56k cards?

Stephen Fisher (lithium@cia-g.com)
Fri, 29 Aug 1997 15:52:02 -0600 (MDT)

No kidding. I'm starting to see those problems which I can't believe
passed by internal testing and beta testing of Lucent code!!!

And Livingston isn't saying anything other than "it's being worked on"
well we only have 21 days to return the old cards so we need it fixed
like, now.

- Steve
- Systems Manager
- Community Internet Access, Inc.
- Gallup and Grants, New Mexico

On Fri, 29 Aug 1997, Chris Evoy 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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> > Advanced Medical Systems, Inc. jake@uh.edu
> > 8300 Bissonnet #400
> > Houston, Texas 77074 http://www.ams.com/~jake
> >
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