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(ASCEND) Re: Everyone go buy a fan.

> From: Darkshot <darkshot@chudys.com>
> Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 07:23:49 -0400
> Subject: (ASCEND) Everyone go buy a fan.
> 
> As most people on the list here know, I've been a big MAX supporter
> since I got my first one over 2 years ago. Since we serve a largely
> rural clientele, we've had our share of problems with K56Flex and the
> local telcos, but I've never seen half the problems that many folks
> relate here. Basically, all my Maxen have just "sit there and run".

Nice to know I'm not the only one.

<mega snippage>

> So. A quick drive to the remote PoP. I unstacked (physically) the 3
> Maxen, placed aluminum spacers between them, rotated them 30 degrees
> from each other, turned a window fan on the "pile o'Maxen", rebooted,
> and....over 13 hours later, no problems. NONE. We're now headed into
> the "heat of the day" so if there are going to be problems, we'll see
> them within the next 6 hours. The main harbringer is CRC errors- at
> least here, when we see those start at all, we know we're getting ready
> to see the reboots and/or lost modems.

Do you have the ISDN/Frame Relay software package?  If so, you've just
given me sufficient reason to upgrade (our office is glacial -- it's in
our lease).  

> An aside...the "computer not answering" message happens to me now and
> again here at home, dialing into the Max6K. If I do the "+MS=11" to
> disable K56 or V.90, it goes away, but even if I remove the +MS=11 I
> can never connect again, at all- until I remove the modem (in windows)
> and reboot so that WIndows "finds" it again. Then it works, and I get
> a good solid V.90 connect. Since this always works, and has worked for
> everyone else with a "touchy" V.90 modem, I don't think it's a MAX
> problem, unless, as someone mentioned before, the Max is confusing OUR
> modems. I guess it's possible...

Thanks for the modem string.  I have a bunch of folks who have KFlex
modems and whose CO was just upgraded to the 5ESS, so while their modem
was working reliably at 33.6k, it's now sucking mud at 40k (when it can
stay connected). 

Since we have a flat-rate ISDN tariff, that's what I use at home, so I
have zero experience with 56k modems of any stripe.


- J-Mag Guthrie

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