Re: (PM) Re: Compaq Presario modem
Tim Tsai (tim@futuresouth.com)
Thu, 25 Mar 1999 20:59:10 -0600
> We use Lucent PM3's, Cisco AS5300, AssuredAccess/Alcatel X1000's and I can
> tell you from experience that the cheapo modems/old firmware/bad phone
> lines affect them all. Cheapo modem a may not work with the PM3 but will
> with Cisco and AssuredAccess, cheapo modem b might work well with PM3,
> AssuredAccess, and so on. I also have to agree with the other posters who
> say that 99.9% of modems can be made to connect with newer firmware and/or
> an init string. Statistics wise, all the boxes we have run within 1 to 2
> percent of each other on termination causes from radius and syslog info.
That's one good data point. Have you had to do any tweaking of the
telco switching settings, etc.?
Another issue I haven't gotten into is excessive retrains/renegotiations.
Once you get your customer connected, do you check their retrains/renegs?
It's one thing to connect at 49,333 - it's another to be able to download
files at near that rate.
Tim
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