From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Jun 21 12:02:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA14149 for isp-outgoing; Sat, 21 Jun 1997 12:02:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lightning.tbe.net (qmailr@lightning.tbe.net [208.208.122.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA14144 for ; Sat, 21 Jun 1997 12:02:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 23377 invoked by uid 1010); 21 Jun 1997 18:57:45 -0000 Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 14:57:45 -0400 (EDT) From: "Gary D. Margiotta" To: Blaz Zupan cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ISDN In-Reply-To: <199706211716.TAA00255@gold.amis.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Until now I did not find any other TA but the Omni 128. Which other TA's > have two serial ports? Well, the USR courier I-Modem does, and I believe there is one from Cardinal that does also, though I am not sure of the model #. > Yeah, I just registered for the 56K modem cards on www.livingston.com. > I'm not so eagerly waiting for those anyway, because most customers over > here use USR modems that do X2 instead of K56flex and I do not intend to > support them anyway (get ISDN if you want higher speed). True, but in my situation, I am getting a PRI, which from my understanding doesn't interface well with ISDN, and vice versa, though unfortunately I didn't have much time to do the reasearch, the quality of our phone lines is forcing my hands into going digital before we really wanted to. > Won't this be an expensive route? First buying the USR units, then switching > to PM3? I think that 56K is just an intermediate step and it will die sooner > or later. Actually we were and still are planning on supporting both standards until they come up with one mix, and that in the end would also allow us for more phone lines and modems in the end. I agree with you on that. -Gary Margiotta TBE Internet Services http://www.tbe.net