Re: (PM) PM3 RFE Idea....

Vernon Burke (vburke@skow.net)
Mon, 1 Feb 1999 11:06:42 -0000

Unfortunately, with X2,K56,V90, the calling modem
controls the speed, not the answering one. Anything
else would be a standards violation.

Vern

----- Original Message -----
From: John Vozza <john@netrom.com>
To: Kris Rallapalli <sysop@kepnet.com>
Cc: <portmaster-users@livingston.com>
Sent: Monday, February 01, 1999 3:25 PM
Subject: Re: (PM) PM3 RFE Idea....

>Let me clarify this a bit....
>
>I'm not looking to prevent someone from logging in if they are using a
>service that they are not paying for. (That can be done in many radiusd's
>already)
>
>Customer logs in with a 52,000 but gets frequent disconnects. Limiting
>their connect speed to 48,000 makes the disconnects disappear. Would be
>nice to use the "intelligence" of the PM3's DSP's to make the needed
>adjustments to silently move the client to the lower speed. I do realize
>that this is less then trivial to implement which is why I was looking for
>feedback on what the industry thinks.
>
>Many customers are just unable/unwilling to add the needed strings on
>their side and this "feature" might help us all get through the growing
>pains of 56K technology. I have heard of requests to disable protocols via
>a setting on the PM3's but why penalize all users when we could tweak only
>those that need the help.
>
>
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