Re: [OFF TOPIC] Re: (ASCEND) How Ascend should fix thier software problem

[Andy Walden <andy@enigma.mtco.com>]

I will refer to a message I got on another list yesterday for the jest of
it, more cause I think its pretty funny. I don't have any experience with
AS5300's, but I will say my Ascend experience with 10 or so TNT's and 15
or so Max 4xxx is relatively trouble free. More the TNT's then the 4xxx
series.

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This is indeed our same experience.  We switched to the pm3 and have still
had some minor problems here or there (Most of which was cured by a client
modem firmware upgrade).  But overall My tech support staff was cheering
when we bought the 5200's offline.  I took the modems out of one of them
and let them smash it up with a sledgehammer.  This seemed to help.  I
can't wait to see what the leasing company says ;)   Would insurance cover
that?

We ran everything from 11.2.X to 12.0.X, and every single microcom modem
upgrade.  The box stinks plain and simple.  Its slow 25mhz processor can
barely handle a 1/2 load, the 30 minute reboots got very old.  The IOS
Bug,s the Modem Bugs, the almost endless wait for modem updates after bugs
where found.  Cisco rocks for routers, it's all we will ever use.  Their
dialup access servers blow tiny particle laser-chunks out the back-end.

Author: Scott Bethke <kbethke@ezy.net>


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On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Anthony Chatman wrote:

> Not just talking about cisco. But why does cisco suck really hard in the
> RAS area? From what i've seen the AS5300's look pretty good, even though
> it's not as easy to configure them.
> 
> 
> 
> Andy Walden wrote:
> > 
> > Cause everyone has problems, if your talking about a RAS, Cisco sucks
> > real hard in fact.
> >
> 


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