Re: PM3's in operation

Joe Sasek (sasek@livingston.com)
Wed, 18 Dec 1996 17:18:30 -0800

>Once upon a time Mikel Lindsaar shaped the electrons to say...
>>The question that is being rasied by my associates is "Yes the PM3 is a
>>bargain at the price and seems technically advanced, but what track record
>>do they have?"
>
>Well, they've been shipping approximately one month. So they don't have
>a long record. But the record so far is pretty good - very good actually.
>*Especially* considering it is a new product with a lot of new technology.
>There have been few problems, and those have been minor overall.

One key element missed here is that while the PM3 is new hardware, the
_software_ ie.. (ComOS, loyal constituants help me here), has been shipping
for over 5 years and is recognized (almost unanimously ;-) as extemely
stable (there is almost a somewhat regular battle about who has the longest
Portmaster system uptime)! ComOS was designed from the ground up to do the
job that ISP's enable Portmasters to do. This is not "new" technology as
far as the software is concerned.

My 2 cents.

Joe Sasek

>>To reply, I would like to point out successful sites and problems that
>>have been found (and hopefully overcome).
>
>There was a problem with modem connections under odd conditions - like
>14.4 only if LAPM failed with certain modems, then PPP would work. Weird
>stuff. That was fixed. There have been cosmetic issues that have been
>fixed - odd formatting on the data, or displaying the wrong number.
>
>We goofed with the first patch releaee - 3.5c1 - and it wouldn't soft
>boot. We put 3.5c2 out to remedy that mistake. 3.5c2 also has the
>33.6 modem code for those who want to test it.
>
>There was a long letrer on this list just a couple of days ago, praising
>the unit. And it has been getting favorable comments on inet-access and
>ascend-users too.
>
>-MZ
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