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- Path: nntp.crl.com!usenet
- From: joewald@crl.com (Joseph Waldvogel)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Need Rackmount Recommendations
- Date: 8 Jan 1996 02:55:24 GMT
- Organization: CRL Dialup Internet Access
- Message-ID: <1844.6580T1018T1652@crl.com>
- References: <4ceant$ea@sanjuan.islandnet.com> <4cph9h$7n2@jake.probe.net>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: crl4.crl.com
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- >mark@islandnet.com (Mark Morley) seems to have written:
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- >>We are an ISP and we need to start looking at different rack mount modems.
- >>We had standardized on USR Courier 28.8's (standalone) and then started
- >>buying the rack-mount versions. They work great, but USR can't provide
- >>them anymore. If they can't keep up it's time to look at other brands.
-
- >[snip]
- >>*DON'T* suggest Microcom - they stink. I have one of their rack units
- >>sitting here on my desk and it's about to be packaged up and sent back.
- >>What don't I like about it? Here's a list:
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- >> - Twice as big as the USR racks.
- >> - About four times as heavy.
- >> - No cooling fan, runs hot.
- >> - Doesn't come with the proper cables so there's no way to plug in
- >> phone lines until you build them yourself or order them at an extra
- >> cost.
-
- >Mark,
-
- >Don't send that Microcom rack back to them, ship it to me. I use
- >Microcom rack V.34's exclusively, after months of listening to my
- >customers bitch and moan about not being able to stay connected to our
- >USR's for more than a few minutes. We put them in a rack, cool them
- >with the same fans we use for the ISDN racks, routers, etc., and
- >cables don't bother us. In fact, I like not having scads of little
- >flat cables cluttering up our racks.
-
- I wish my ISP didn't have them Microcom Modems, I'm Lucky If I get a 26.8K
- or whatever connect. Yet I can call out of Town Long Distance and get 28.8K
- connects everytime to USR modems! I talked to the Teck there at my ISP, He
- also happens to have a USR Courier modem, They would have USR modems it it
- wasn't for the PRICE as the USR modems are better!!! I hope the Modems will
- get Upgraded to at least support the New Improved LAPM stuff,.etc like the
- Couriers do, so I can at least take advantage of that, and if they add 33.6 to
- the modems, even better.
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