Hal,
You could replace all your USR Sportsters with the USR Total Control
(Courier) MP/16s.
You could replace all your USR Sportsters with the USR NetServer.
Then, ring-no-answers wouldn't all be caused by your phone co. Nor modem
firmware hangs. Plus, you could then add some significant budget dollars
for a dentist of the equine variety to pull firmware upgrades out of USR;
or better yet, a proctologist who specializes in bovines of the male gender :)
You could go with the Ascend 4004 and freely download alpha and beta
firmware du jour from an ftp server named "drawbridge" (is that ominous or
what?) and about 13.5% of your connections would be at 28.8 or better (see
details published in yesterday's thread). The gamma code isn't scheduled
yet, but will proably be found between the hen's teeth, if at all.
If you look around inet-access, ascend-users and portmaster-users mailing
lists for 12/16, you might not see any disagreement regarding the PM3.
ascend-users was especially quiet today.
Sometimes 70% or more :) of the pooches get screwed in the short run. Just
make sure one of your litter mates (or shareholders) is a lawyer. Bump his
sweat equity :) and he'll be all smiles at Hannukah every year :-))
Psst -- MZ told me marty@livingston.com might be your best friend.
Dance with who brung ya unless the wrong one(s) brung ya to the dance.
Livingston is a great dance partner.
And keep a close eye out for those manfucaturers who require a distribution
channel between you and them.
Sincerely,
Larry Vaden, founder and CEO
Internet Texoma, Inc.
bringing the real Internet to rural Texomaland
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