Hmmm... where to start. As far as I know only Patton is giving away the V.92 upgrade. Cisco and Lucent are promising reasonably priced upgrades. Patton is an unknown quantity with a very small installed base, so it remains to be seen what will happen to them if they grow to the number of installed ports of 3Com. Support is expensive, but it can be controlled. I question who 3Com has been selling their product to. If they are that clueless, they have been sold the wrong product. I still believe it is possible that there is a technical reason the quads cannot be upgraded. If that is the case it proves the point that the upper management of 3Com is dumber than board of they have been unwilling/unable/unknowledgable to transfer the information to their customers. Funny thing is, it isn't that hard to believe that might be true... We still have good luck with our quads. I wouldn't be interested in dumping them if it weren't for the fact that we need to reduce the required space for our modems. That does bring up a problem I have with Patton. My current requirements are for 17 spans, not 16 and not 20. I don't want to mix'n'match boxes, yet I don't want to pay for something I'm not using. That is part of the problem in making the argument for a move to Patton. Scalbility is not as fine as the 3Com gear. Mark Thornton San Marcos Internet, Inc. 512-393-5300 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Farber" <farber@admin.f-tech.net> To: <usr-tc@lists.xmission.com> Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 1:05 PM Subject: Re: (usr-tc) v.92 for quads update
You are WAY to forgiving to these people.... everyone else is GIVING v.92/v.44 away.... whay would you wnat to pay for it?
EOL the quads was a Microsoft tactic.... if you can't sell to new ISP's for the old ones to upgrade for no apparent reason.
I liked the quads but in some POPs they didn't work as well as the DSP's or Patton gear.
Other than you hge expense of replacing 2K+ ports, I would ditch the quads also.... there are to many other good alternatives out there.
Paul Farber Farber Technology farber@admin.f-tech.net Ph 570-628-5303 Fax 570-628-5545
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