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- From: benny@shadow.net (Benito Horta)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Modem endurance question
- Date: 21 Feb 1996 04:00:30 GMT
- Organization: Shadow Information Services, Inc.
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- Kevin J Osowski (ykevin@alpha2.csd.uwm.edu) wrote:
- : I have 2 USR 144 sportster modems in a linux box. I use one to connect to a
- : modem pool in the University. It is connected continually for ever. That is
- : until it died after 3 months of near continual connection. Whenever it
- : would hangup it would call back in minutes.
-
- : The question is, is this too much to expect from these modems? If it is
- : are there any recomendations that would really work for this
- : application? I am looking for 288 but would really like it to be more
- : durable or is this impossible? I did try a USR 288 and it only lasted
- : 12-16 hours and then loose connection. The machine would then need to be
- : rebooted, not good. Any suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated.
- : Maybe something like an industrial modem.
-
- Get a industrial rackmount modem. You guys should be able to afford it
- from all that tuition you guys collect from college students and grants.
-
- Motorola and USR manufacture some heavy duty Rackmout modems. but it is
- odd your having those problems, I have a sportster 14.4 and sometimes its
- connected 8 hours a day to a SLIP provider for heavy transactions. how is
- the cooling on that PC?
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