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- From: direwolf@uiuc.edu (Mike Berger)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.bbs.tbbs
- Subject: Re: RACK MOUNT for USR SPORTSTERS
- Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 12:35:38 -0600
- Organization: Network Information Center
- Message-ID: <direwolf-0602961235380001@genista.life.uiuc.edu>
- References: <4erdd4$okb@ddi2.digital.net> <31120f60.52890298@news.insync.net> <4f0qi2$ir1@news.enterprise.net> <4f3s5e$qe0@ionews.ionet.net>
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- In article <4f3s5e$qe0@ionews.ionet.net>, jroberts@ionet.net (John
- Roberts) wrote:
-
- > In article <4f0qi2$ir1@news.enterprise.net>, paul.blitz@enterprise.net says...
- >
- > >bubba@insync.net (Bill Garfield) 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.
- >
- > >3) Is such a unit going to be reliable enough for 24/7/365 use?
- >
- > A local ISP of 'reasonable' size has been using Sportsters with success
- for the
- > past year or so. They've lost a handful out of a couple hundred of them
- > (usually from going 'brain dead'), and have had virtually no complaints with
- > compatability that weren't resolved with handholding subscribers through
- > configuring their own modems and clients.
- >
- There are two problems with this. First, your support costs are very high
- if you have to come up with modem init strings for everybody. Secondly,
- when you solve your problems by reconfiguring users' modems, there's
- generally an inclination to disable all the features that people buy
- faster modems for in the first place (data compression is the first
- thing you eliminate, right? And error correction?).
-
- If you use decent modems you don't run into these problems.
-