🚀 go-pugleaf

Frank Weissig <faw@teleport.com> wrote:

>Gary G. Barrueto wrote:
>> 
>> I'm about to get ISDN this week :) but I still need to decide what ISDN
>> device I want to purchase. I know I want something I can use via the
>> serial port. The ones I've been thinking about are:
>
>If you want to go via the serial port, the DataFire is out.  It emulates
>a NIC (Network Interface Card) and requires drivers. There is currently
>only driver support for Windows NT and WFW/RAS.  Works pretty good under
>NT, though, as long as you don't need MLPPP.  Win95 drivers are supposedly
>imminent.
>
>> 
>> Motorola TA 210 (does this do 2B connects?)
>> Motorola Bitsurfer
>> Motorola Bitsurfer Pro
>> Digi Datafire (only heard about this)
>> 3Com Impact (w/o built-in modem) int/ext
>
>If you don't already have a v.34 modem, you might want to consider the USR
>Courier I-Modem.  It's a bit spendy ($600-$800), but is a solid unit, and it
>does v.34 emulation.  Two potential drawbacks: no MLPPP or BONDing, and it
>can't "simulate" DTMF after connecting an analog call, so you can't call
>analog modems which live on PBX extensions.

Geez, if you are gonna spend $800 why not spend a bit more and go all
the way?? Get a ethernet ISDN router like a pipeline 25 and get MPP
and compression  True, it doesn't do v.34, but I stuck my old v.34
into one of the pots jacks, and I can FINALLY really get 28.8k
connections (before, my analog line wasn't good for much over 24k...)

Getting away from the #$@$ serial I/O makes a huge difference in the
system performance, especially if you like to do more than one thing
at a time instead of waiting for downloads....

-jrp