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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: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 13:53:58 -0500
- Organization: Heller Info Services, Inc.
- Message-ID: <ph-0602961353580001@ppc100.his.com>
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- In article <direwolf-0602961232460001@genista.life.uiuc.edu>,
- direwolf@uiuc.edu (Mike Berger) wrote:
-
- > Mine too. As a new ISP we got the best modems we could (The UDS V.3400)
- > because we wanted to build up a base of satisfied customers. Some of
- > our competitors, who, like Paul, wanted to build their user base
- > before worrying about quality of service, are losing business to us.
-
- Don't presume to speak for me - we're not losing anybody because I put in
- a bunch of Supras - quite the contrary. We've always had banks of
- Couriers & Optimas for the folks for whom the Supras don't work well. I'm
- now in the process of replacing the Supras because I want to stop having
- to tell people to call a different # if they're having problems connecting
- after it rains or snows (and because the physical reality of that many
- separate modems is a little bothersome), but I think the strategy of
- getting lots of lines up & running quickly so we could ramp up quickly was
- a good one, given that we didn't have the cash to buy 250 expensive modems
- all at once. ISPs lose more people because of busy signals than they lose
- because they don't have perfect modems.
-
- We also started with less RAM in the UNIX boxes than I'd would have liked,
- but we got along, and were able to fix that problem, too, when the cash
- started rolling in.
-
- About the only place we didn't scrimp was on the point-to-point T1, and
- the 2nd T1 is going in later this month, long before we'll actually need
- it. We also didn't scrimp on support personnel or phone-help hours -
- that's very important in our market, because so many people don't do it
- well & it's easy to stand out & look great by just being available &
- knowing something about the popular setup & troubleshooting under Win95,
- Win3.1, and Mac.
-
- I'd do it (all of it) again the same way if I had it to do over again.
-
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- /Paul Heller
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