On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Netadmin wrote:
A wide variety of topics have been brought up lately. What are the lists users thoughts of other remote access products compared to 3com- Total Control? It seems the 3com is widely used products among the ISP forum. Any comments are appreciated.
Heres the ones ive personally used Cisco AS5248 The good - excellent support excellent feature set 'no one ever got fired for buying cisco' The bad - IOS was never really designed for handling dialups and it shows Severely underpowered CPU (68030) 'merely adequate' modem DSP code Lucent PM3 The good - good feature set good tech support The bad - Somewhat underpowered cpu 'fair to good' modem DSP code ComOS can be flaky (spontaneous reboots etc) 3com Hiper The good - good feature set blazingly fast CPU and architecture (overengineered? :) excellent modem code The bad - terrible tech support Ascend Max The good - good to great modem code good feature set, minor annoyances on some features (eg DOVBS) The bad - Somewhat underpowered cpu - 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.