Re: (ASCEND) modem speed

[Alex P <alex@stomp.gomax.com>]

There is nothing to fix this, and Ascend has abondoned it in favor of
pushing 56K on us, claiming that "Rockwell" fixed that in the new
releases.  I have seen a negligable increase in the connection speeds
reported by radius with the new K56 modems.  They are lighter, cooler, and
have just as much trouble as the old V.34 cards had with connection
speeds.  

C'mon guys, how about either putting some serious pressure on Rockwell,
and getting this fixed already?  Either that, or putting out a tested,
reliable product, instead of having all of us do your beta testing (at the
expense of losing our own dial-up customers) for you?  

Alex P

On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, Stuart Kendrick wrote:

> I'm playing with my first Maxen -- 4004 -- and I'm seeing suboptimal modem
> performance.
> 
> I'm comparing performance to my older USR and Motorola Codex dial-in pools --
> all V.34 -- I typically get 24.0 - 31.6 connections with them. But with the
> Maxen, I see 19.2 - 26.4.  This with 5.0Ap5, tm.m40.
> 
> When I tried 5.0Ap13 and 5.0Ap16, I was seeing 14.4 - 21.6.  Painful.
> 
> The Maxen are equipped with 12 modem V.34 cards.
> 
> I'm in test mode, so only one or two analog connections through the Max at a
> time, nothing else.  I'm using PPP and interactive (VT100) dial-in for testing.
>  I test from home, passing through my telco, and from my office, purely
> in-house cabling, through in-house PBX, terminating on the Maxen.  I am using a
> mix of USR Courier V.Everything (V.34 and x2) and Supra V.34 modems at the
> remote PC.  (USR x2 gives me hideous performance against the Maxen; I dropped
> them from the test mix early on.)
> 
> Does anyone else see this kind of behavior?  Is there a fix, a particular
> software rev which boosts modem performance?
> 
> --sk
> 
> Stuart Kendrick
> Network Services
> FHCRC
> 
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