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- From: ph@his.com (Paul Heller)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.bbs.tbbs
- Subject: Re: RACK MOUNT for USR SPORTSTERS
- Date: Sat, 03 Feb 1996 09:08:24 -0500
- Organization: Heller Info Services, Inc.
- Message-ID: <ph-0302960908240001@ppc100.his.com>
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- In article <31120f60.52890298@news.insync.net>, bubba@insync.net wrote:
-
- > But what concernes me more is that -ANYONE- would ever consider
- > using low-end consumer grade modems in a commercial central site
- > host system.
-
- Some ISPs love Sportsters, some think they're trash. The community seems
- to be polarized on the issue, judging by what I read in the ISP mailing
- lists.
-
- Choice of specific brand aside, bigger ISPs go for rack-mount modems,
- startups tend to economize a little because they don't have much cash.
-
- We went with stand-alone modems (a mixture of Supras (OK 'til it rains),
- Hayes Optimas and Couriers) when we started our ISP operation, because I
- wanted to get as many lines on the air as we could, as fast as we could.
- Now that we've got a few hundred lines running & have cash flowing in,
- we're replacing the stand-alones with rack-mount modems, but there's no
- way we could have gotten off to as fast a start as we did if we'd gone for
- rack-mounts in the first place, because they're so expensive. I can
- definitely identify with the guys using a ton of stand-alone modems ;-)
-
- --
- /Paul Heller
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