I don't have any data regarding the number of retrains/renegotiations. I do
know that some customers with 56k modems need to limit their max speed to
prevent excessive retrains/renegotiations.
Kevin
Sofnet, Inc.
-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Tsai <tim@futuresouth.com>
To: Kevin Wormington <kworm@sofnet.com>
Cc: Portmaster User <portmaster-users@livingston.com>
Date: Thursday, March 25, 1999 8:59 PM
Subject: Re: (PM) Re: Compaq Presario modem
>> 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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