On Wed, 31 May 2000, Paul Farber wrote:
And you have what experience with TC?
Three years or so, give or take a few months...
They are pretty good RAS'es. Most of the time a crappy modem (Apple is not immune to this) or old drivers are the problem. I wish I had a dime for every sw update that 'magically' cleared up a connect problem.
And I'd like a dime for each time it didn't. We'd be equally rich.
MAC has not released new modem drivers in about 6 months.... so THEY perfected v.90 code??? Don't think so.
And the last time there was a DSP release that didn't have some sort of Rockwell fix? Personally, I'd prefer to have 3Com add more "workarounds" for things like this. Too many folks end up moving over to Ascend shops when we tell them they'll have to tweak their modem script to connect at a max 4xxxx bps to maintain a stable connection. The days of USR being the "most compatible" are over. Maybe Apple (and others) only test with Ascend/Lucent as they know that 80% or more of the the wholesale dialup ports out there are non-3Com. Even AOL is ditching 3Com for Cisco these days... Charles ps- another random thought, Michelle Catalano (sp?) does not work at Lucent.
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On Wed, 31 May 2000, Charles Sprickman wrote:
On Wed, 31 May 2000, Paul Farber wrote:
MAC users are led to believe that this stuff really does work as advertised.
It actually does if you don't need to dial into a HiPer DSP equipped ISP. You should give it a shot sometime. Two plugs, a phone number, and a login is about all you need. No 'dialup adapter' or tcp-ip stack to install/uninstall/reinstall.
I won't vouch for the quality of the old system, but O/T PPP blows most other crap away... Unless you're stuck dialing into usr equipment. :)
Charles
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On Wed, 31 May 2000, Jeff Binkley wrote:
Everyone,
We continue to struggle with certain MAC computers connecting to our TC racks. The struggle is often on older MACs (prior to version 8) which don't always come with a browser and sometimes not even a PPP stack. Our latest problem child is a Mac Quadra 610 with 7.1 on it . I am wodering what folks are doing to provide software to MAC customers. We have a CDROM burner and we have the HyCD software which supposedly burns MAC CDROMs ( we downlaod the software off of the Internet and then burn the CDs) but we have had limited success with this. What are others doing to deal with the MACs ?
THanks,
Jeff Binkley ASA Network Computing
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