Quad cards were great in their day, and they are still good for small POPs, but IMO, I can't blame 3COM for ending development on them.
I just got a deal from another ISP on a TC1000 loaded with quad cards and I jumped on it for the one community we must use trunk lines because PRI's aren't available there. It's seems such a waste to use an expensive Hiper DSP card on non-PRI circuits. I also have a support contract with both 3COM and Cisco and even telephoned 3COM to ask a techie's opinion as if I should even get this unit and if it could be added to my contract! No problem, now less than a month later, I'm finding out that I won't be able to upgrade it beyond v.90. Oh well, back to focusing on PRI circuits and I guess, we'll just have to let those small communities suffer with inferior phone service and remote access equpment :^( I discovered the Quad cards a great 3COM recipe for rural access. Now, we'll have no choice but to find other options for our rural communities.... Best 'net regards, Joe -- Joe Rinehart, Operations Designer Config.Com, Inc. 124 North Chestnut Street, Ravenna, OH 44266 T: 330.297.9595 F:330.296.4005 H:330.298.4396 http://joerinehart.com/ mailto:joe@config.com finger:joe@config.com - 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.