If its not a DMS-100 ask the LE channelized gurus.
dkeal
On Sat, 1 Nov 1997, Stephen Fisher wrote:
>
> On Sat, 1 Nov 1997, Greg Hughes wrote:
>
> > I'd appreciate any comments or words of wisdom concerning my situation
> > here. We have six PM3's, all with 50 of the K56Flex modem cards (5-10
> > modem cards per chassis) and stack cards. I've pasted in a partial "sh
> > mo" listing from our first PM-3 below. Our CT-1 provisioning is:
> >
> > - USWest CT-1's (UAS) (New Mexico)
> > - B8ZS
> > - ESF
> > - Wink Start
> > - Send 7 (might have to change to send 1 or send 0?)
>
> You may very well want to switch to immediate start. I finally got US
> West to start processing this order. The wink start timing on the PM3 is
> something like 140-240ms and US West, at least where we are in Gallup
> (a town near Greg here in New Mexico for the curious) is expecting it to
> be between something like 210-240ms only.. this seems to be causing a LOT
> of inital connection problems and perhaps contributing to the high-load
> disconnects on the other channels (no idea - going to find out when they
> switch it next week).
>
> > We are answering only modem calls on these lines (no ISDN).
>
> Same here..
>
> > We have had the following problems/complaints during our testing (we
> > decided not to go live yet due to an office move and the known PM-3
> > difficulties):
> >
> > - Disconnects during high traffic times. We did a mass dial-in sort of
> > test where 40 users dialed in at around 8:00pm (they all hit between
> > 8:00pm and 8:05pm). The users had a hard time connecting (took several
> > tries in some cases) and some were dropped during that period. (At the
>
> Several tries needed.. seems like the wink start vs. immediate start that
> I just found out about (thanks Dave!).
>
> > same time, I have been connected for three days at a time without a
> > problem under the latest COM/OS release, but it hasn't solved this
> > particular problem).
>
> You are running 3.7.1c1 right?
>
> > - One modem port (M10) kept cycling through test/admin/down/etc. modes
> > and was unable to be connected to a remote modem when users dialed into
> > it, so the sysadmin put it in to admin state to allow people to dial
> > past it.
> >
> > - Another modem port (M4) has gone into down mode all by itself and has
> > not come back. However, no problems dialing into subsequent modems.
>
> Weird.. c1 fixes the ADMIN problems.
>
> > My biggest concern is that our testers, who are all heavy users on our
> > system, can make extremely reliable connections to our PM-2/USR Courier
> > POTS setups, but have problems connecting to the PM-3's, and the fact
> > that there seem to be periods of disconnects that affect some users.
>
> Yeah.. c1 also fixes some random disconnection problems.
>
> Right now we're seeing problems with almost always USR Telepath/Sportsters
> and some Practical Prepherials modems..
>
>
> - Steve
> - Systems Manager
> - Community Internet Access, Inc.
> - Gallup and Grants, New Mexico
>
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