(PM) Famous or not so famous K56Flex! (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Tue, 6 Jan 1998 19:35:34 -0800 (PST)

Once upon a time D. Germain shaped the electrons to say...
>We have a PM3 installed since about 1 month with 2 CT1 giving us 48
>channels. We've got the COMOS 3.7.2c2 in it.
>
>Most of our customer are connecting at speed like 26400 or even worst at
>24000. Many of them are telling us that they have a K56Flex modem. We also
>did check with them the version of code in their modem. Some are more
>recent than 1.009 some dont but almost every one are telling us that they
>do K56 with other ISP.

Soudns like you have a lineside CT1 to me - you need trunkside CT1 to do
PCM connections, and it also fairs better with regular connect speeds.

>rep said! We also have a Total Control fully loaded with 2 PRI and I even

Apples and oranges. You are comparing PRI to CT1. PRI seems, from user
reports, to generally allow for a notch or so faster connect speeds. And
that is PRI vs trunkside CT1.

Since you can't get PCM connections at all, and are getting slow V.34
connects, it really sounds like you have a lineside CT1.

>connect at 19200 all the time on it with my thinkpad (equiped with a 14,400
>bps) and I do transfert file at 1.9Kbytes/sec all the time but I cant say

How can you connect at 19200 with a 14400 modem? That's impossible. If
the carrier is truly 19200, then the modem isn't a 14400 unit.

>try ;-) )on the net but so far we only did connect 1 time with Kflex at a
>poor 40000.

While it would be odd to get any PCM connections over a lineside CT1, I
have seen it reported once or twice. While supposedly impossible it was
theorized that a near perfect codec might allow it to negotiate - but it
would probably not work well in action.

If you can, take a PRI from the TC and plug it into the PM-3 (appropriate
configured) and dialin. Maybe late at night when you don't have a lot
of users, rob the second PRI for a bit.

-MZ

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