Having worked with a dozen or so of these boxes, I believe there is a hardware problem - likely with the power supply. They seem to not work well in power environments of 220V. I had a Max 200+ in the UK which required two replacements before I got one that could run without hanging. Now I have the same issue in Singapore (hangs every 1-2 days) and in Sydney (hangs every few days) and Tokyo (hangs every 1 to 2 weeks). I've tried many different code revisions including 4.6, 5.0a, 5.0ai13 and most recently 5.0ap36 (among others). Code does not appear to resolve the issue. In the case of my UK Maxes which hung every few hours to a day or so - when I brought them back here to the states they ran ok for days. The UK site tried with UPS, without UPS but the result was hang hang hang. I do have Max 200s running merrily along in the UK, Paris, Munich, Rattingen (ger), Seoul, Taipei, Hong Kong. Unfortunately these run the same code revisions as the Max 200s which hang. And the tough thing about resolving these issues is just getting these puppies through certain customs can take a week or two. And Sweden just charged my a whopping $1400 to get a $2000 Max 200 through their customs. Socialism - sheesh. Michael Medwid Symantec From: Jim McGrady <jimm@fcs.wa.gov.au> AT Internet on 12/03/97 10:01 AM EST To: ascend-users@max.bungi.com AT Internet@ccMTA-USCU-NT-MTA cc: (bcc: Michael Medwid/Cupertino/Cal/SYMANTEC) Subject: (ASCEND) Best 5.0A release code for Max200+ ? </PRE> <PRE> Good Day All Can anyone recommend a particular patch release of firmware for the Max200+. Weve tried a number of releases to get these flaky boxes to stay up. Thanks Jim </PRE> <!--X-MsgBody-End--> <!--X-Follow-Ups--> <!--X-Follow-Ups-End--> <!--X-References--> <!--X-References-End--> <!--X-BotPNI--> <HR> <UL> <LI>Prev by Date: <STRONG><A HREF="msg11363.html">Re: (ASCEND) Users online time...</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Next by Date: <STRONG><A HREF="msg11359.html">Re: (ASCEND) MAX 4000 Callback problem</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Prev by thread: <STRONG><A HREF="msg11342.html">(ASCEND) Best 5.0A release code for Max200+ ?</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Next by thread: <STRONG><A HREF="msg11350.html">(ASCEND) Nat and IPX</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Index(es): <UL> <LI><A HREF="maillist.html#11361"><STRONG>Main</STRONG></A></LI> <LI><A HREF="thrd264.html#11361"><STRONG>Thread</STRONG></A></LI> </UL> </LI> </UL> <!--X-BotPNI-End--> <!--X-User-Footer--> <!--X-User-Footer-End--> </BODY> </HTML>