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- From: paul.blitz@enterprise.net (Paul Blitz)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.bbs.tbbs
- Subject: Re: RACK MOUNT for USR SPORTSTERS
- Date: Sat, 03 Feb 1996 23:16:43 GMT
- Organization: enterprise plc
- Message-ID: <4f0qi3$ir1@news.enterprise.net>
- References: <4erdd4$okb@ddi2.digital.net> <31120f60.52890298@news.insync.net> <ph-0302960908240001@ppc100.his.com>
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- ph@his.com (Paul Heller) wrote:
-
- >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 ;-)
-
- How did you find the cheap units from an "I'm your customer and I can
- / can't connect to you" point of view??
-
- From MY experience (we sell loads of modems... some to ISPs) the cheap
- ones are NOT so good at connecting to "every other modem under the
- sun"...
-
- Paul
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