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----- Original Message -----
From: Patrick Kormann <pkormann@datacomm.ch>
To: 'Thomas C Kinnen' <tkinnen@livingston.com>
Cc: <portmaster-users@livingston.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 1999 1:55 PM
Subject: AW: (PM) PortMaster BenchMarks
> Ha!
>
> We just had a provider-contest going on, done by a swiss computer
magazine.
> they tested 15 providers and for analog calls, we ware by far the
slowest!!!
> They didn't have enlough space in their tables to show *how* slow we
are...
> ISDN was so so... (second half)
> Why? Because they were using 3 com modems, and we seem to be amongst the
> ones that have problems (or better: our portmasters) with 3com.
> it's somewhat frustrating if you have a early unloaded 34 MBit/s link to
the
> pop they tested and you have plenty of bandwith to the internet, and the
> tester say you can't connect, you get dropped and when it works, it's
> sloooooow...
> By the way, I own an US Robotics v.everything and an US Robotics Sportster
> ISDN by myself. Both are unusable with the PM3.
> The v.everything just retrains and renegotiates when connected with v.90
> (and that on an anlog port of an ISDN line!) and the Sportster ISDN
doesn't
> get higher than about 2.5-4 Kbyte/s. Which protocol you take doesn't
matter
> (v.120, x.75, ppp).
> I'd rather see lucent fixing things like this *quickly* than pointing out
> such benchmarks. Of course, other NASes have problems as well, and yes,
with
> another modem we might have won. But that's really not very comforting if
> you're the only one out of 15 tested providers that has such severe line
> problems!
>
>
> PS: ACHTUNG!! Neue Einheitsnummer 0840 840 850 !!
> !! Gültig für die ganze Schweiz !!
>
> Mit freundlichen Grüssen
>
> Patrick Kormann
> DataComm (Schweiz) AG
> Projektleiter Technik
>
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> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Thomas C Kinnen [mailto:tkinnen@livingston.com]
> Gesendet am: Donnerstag, 18. März 1999 17:31
> An: pkormann@intern.datacomm.ch
> Cc: Mail List - Portmaster Users
> Betreff: Re: (PM) PortMaster BenchMarks
>
> "Nair, Shibu (MED, Wipro Systems, Inc)" wrote:
>
> > Does anybody did a comparative study on Portmaster 3(or 4) and Total
> > control hub (3com's) ...
>
> http://www.livingston.com/marketing/products/lanquest_benchmark.html
>
> --
> Thomas C Kinnen - <tkinnen@ra.lucent.com> <tkinnen@sobhrach.com>
> [RADIUS Test Engineer] - LUCENT Technologies RABU
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> unless they were given to me by my employer"
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