Re: PM2ERs

Paul Gregg (pgregg@niweb.com)
10 May 1997 23:43:32 GMT

Jake Messinger (jake@ams.com) wrote:
| On Mon, 5 May 1997, Joshua Barney wrote:
|
| > I was wondering if anyone had any tips on speeding up a PM2ER... It
| > really lags and most times after a day or two I have to reboot the unit
| > to get it back up to speed again... Does anyone have any tips on how to
| > tweak (if you will) the PM... I have noticed a lot of activity even when
| > idle.... I am comparing all my observations with my ciscos... TIA
|
| Id use an external router.

I would *HIGHLY* recommend this.

Being a small ISP - 6 months old and 120 dialups we had one PM2ER, which
due to a massive electrical fault (in supply, not the PM) blew the unit
to hell. Electrical outage lasted 24 hours so it was only the next day
that I found out the 2ER wouldn't work... 3-4 hours on the phone with
Livingston US (I am in Ireland), and they declared it dead. Also being
8 hours ahead of the US ment I couldn't get another until the next day...

Next day, and TNT get me a same day delivery of a ORLS... Total downtime
3 days.... Yech. A friendly competitor locally took a copy of our radius
file and I arranged for the phone company to redirect all calls to them
relieved the dialup pressure. Im still without dialup ability...

Moral? Don't have a 2E and an R in the same box unless you have good
backup measures....

Paul, learning his lesson, Gregg.
o
PS. Livingston support were great, so I can't fault them at all, not
can I fault the HW...

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