Mark Thornton wrote:
While we continue to be intruged by the lure of the greener grass on the other platform, I just took a call from a convert from our prime competitor. The client is a small business just starting to utilize the Internet but their previous connection was "holding them back". I asked what that meant and they indicated the real speed of the connection is very different, in favor of us. I am aware there are other factors that may play into this, but the competitor has all the money, all the bandwidth, all the PRI lines (we use CT1's, primarily) and yet this is a recurring comment from converts. It almost makes me want to hold a revival or something, you know, put up a tent and hand out cd's;) At any rate the other difference between us and them is we use 3Com and they use Lucent and Ascend.
In the past the Ascend products have been way underpowered. All my competitors that have Ascend gear have CPP turned off, even the guys with TNTs. I remember when the 4004 was their 96 port chassis, you couldn't use over 72 ports or everybody would find their connectivity grind to a crawl. One ISP had about 22 4004 boxes swapped out for the 6000 series chassis for free - just the bare chassis was swapped he had to retain all his modem cards. He said it's helped somewhat with performance, but it's not where he thinks it should be. he said he really had to fight to get the those boxes swapped in the first place. I guess the lawyers sent nastygrams back and forth for a over a year before Ascend agreed to the swap. -Ron GLISnet, Inc. +1 810/939.9885 - 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.