Scot Desort writes...
Aaron-
Since you own both, and seem to be in the upper percentile of technically savy telecom people on this list, have YOU personally been able to gather any significant data showing that the Ascend offers a greater percentage of your customers a "better" connection than on the Hiper?
Unfortunatly in our network we have a number of problems that prevent us from comparing the two with any statistical rigor. First is the lack of (or I don't know how to get at them) the same connection quality indicators on the Maxes that we have on the USR's (block error rate, retrains, etc). Second is that our Maxes are on phone numbers that we have allowed our customers to self-select in using. Most are probably Macs, people with rockwell modems, and we've our CLEC has has some inter-office trunking issues that cause people to use the Maxes (they are still on the ILEC). We do have some maxes on our CLEC, it might be fun sometime to set up a peecee to continuously make test calls to the USR's and Maxes, record the results (by dumping the modem registers) and compare the two. I wonder if anyone has a program to do this?
(By better, it may even mean a "subjective" quality of the connection, where the connect speed to both NAS's is the same, but the connection throughput is better, or just "seems and feels" faster to the end user)
The few tests we've made have the 3com's handily beating the Ascends in throughput (FTP of a random-data file) for the same current connection rate. But for some reason the 3com's have some problems in MPP performance that makes the Ascends faster, the last time we tested (at least 6 months ago). -- Aaron Nabil - To unsubscribe to usr-tc, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe usr-tc" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message.