Re: Comparison of Rack Mount Modems

Tom Samplonius (tom@sdf.com)
Mon, 30 Dec 1996 18:44:50 -0800 (PST)

On Mon, 30 Dec 1996, Tim Flavin wrote:

> On Sat, 30 Dec 1995, Ralph R. Rye wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Just a quick note to see what everyone has to say about the following two
> > products & how well they work with livingston portmasters.
> >
> > We are going to be purchasing either Multitech rack mount modems or USR MP(8
> > or 16) and I just wanted to know what other people had experienced with
> > either of these two products. I am mostly concerned with reliability in
> > connecting and expected life before failure. Also if anyone has any tips or
> > tricks for getting either of these products to work better.
> >
>
> We have 4 MP16's in use here that have been 100% flawless, we also have a
> competitor here in town that uses Multitech racks and we get about 10-20
> of their customers a month for modem problems

Lucky you. Older hardware revs of the MP16s are awful. I haven't heard
anything bad about the new ones though.

Multitech will be releasing new code in the next couple of weeks with
new DSP code from AT&T. There were several releases recently that fixed
some bugs in the management stuff that would cause modem crashes.

> Tim Flavin

Tom