Re: External ISDN

thoth@purplefrog.com
Fri, 06 Sep 1996 13:10:39 EDT

dwarren@NetUSA.Net (Douglas Warren) ,in message <m0uz0xJ-001yXsC@Alpha.NetUSA.N
et>, wrote:

> We're still toying with the thought of ISDN and we're not yet sure if
> we will be using it en masse or not. Towards that end we've gotten a
> single BRI and would like to get a BitSurfer Pro to test it with, my
> questions are:
>
> 1) Can an External ISDN device work with a normal PM2E?
> 2) In this configuration can you only use one B or 2B?
> 3) If 2B How does bonding work?
> 4) Is there anything special you need to do to the portmaster for it
> to work?

I am not thrilled with my BSPro. However, I can not blame it for my
0.5kbyte/sec throughput. That lies clearly with my machine cairo which I hope
an OS upgrade will help. The BSPro does have some rather suck-ass prolems
with "high throughput" 2B connections (if you consider 7Kbyte/sec
high-throughput) to Livingstons (I don't know about other gear).

The only way I can maintain a connection for more than 5 minutes is to use a
single B instead of Multi-Link PPP over 2B.