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- In article <2k6fag$fjh@Mercury.mcs.com>, <karl@MCS.COM> writes:
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- > From: karl@MCS.COM (Karl Denninger)
- > Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc,alt.winsock
- > Subject: I'm ready to spend money - free and shareware WINSOCK not ok
- > Date: 19 Feb 1994 19:44:48 -0600
- > Organization: MCSNet Ops, Chicago, IL
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- > Ok, I've done everything I can do.
- >
- > Trumpet Winsock is not ok here. For whatever reason, it appears to be
- > dropping incoming interrupts or something similar. The problem I
- > consistantly see is fairly long pauses, some of several seconds. These
- > are <not> the normal "jerkyness" of a SLIP or PPP session. These are
- > problems.
- >
- > Therefore, I'm in the market for a Winsock implementation which has:
- >
- > 1) Internal PPP (preferred) or SLIP
- > 2) Dialer support w/scripting of some kind. Bonus opints if it stores
- > the file in a place and fashion that it can be easily created by
- > a program I write.
- > 3) Auto-dial / auto-hangup would be nice (ie: go inactive for long
- > enough and it disconnects; calls, logs in and goes when there is
- > traffic waiting.
- > 4) Bonus points - can take calls, take a user/password, and establish
- > a connection (from the caller) and apply rule #3 for hangups.
- >
- > 5) REASONABLE costs. Commercialware is ok here, I am willing to pay
- > money and urge customers to pay money too. There are lots of
- > customers and I'm not the only one who wants this. This adds
- > up to large amounts of money available to the company that
- > ends up selling these (ie: lots of reason to do so). However,
- > the market is NOT there for $400 packages. This has to either be
- > reasonably priced or have the Cat's Meow packaged with it, and
- > in many cases the "add-ons" are irrelevant to the users.
- >
- > 6) Performance. No crashes, no screwball pauses, no problems.
- > And if there are, you will fix them pronto. Or no dice.
- >
- > If anyone has recommendations, or wants to send me something to try here
- > and evaluate, please let me know. My metric is a MAC Powerbook w/MacPPP;
- > if you are at least that good (and there are problems with the Powerbook
- > implementation) then you probably get a recommendation and some sales.
- >
- > Someone has to have a reasonably-priced WINSOCK with SLIP and PPP that
- > works. Where are you!
- >
- > Yes, this is a request for vendors to solicit me. :-)
- >
- > --
- > --
- > Karl Denninger (karl@MCS.COM) | MCSNet - Full Internet Connectivity
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- >
- >
-
- I highly recommend Chameleon/NFS 4.0 from NetManage in Cupertino, CA. It works
- great with SLIP. Noo... problems!
-
- Chameleon costs over $400 but it is worth it if you do a lot of work on the
- net.
-
- The phone number is: (408) 973 - 7171
-
- Regards,
-
- Terry Bailey
- tbailey@sun.cc.westga.edu
-
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