I'm going to go with Justin's suggestion and go with a wholesale provider such as DialupUSA. It's not worth paying for the lines and keeping a T1 or better for just a few users. DialupUSA use to charge around $5/user. They also had hourly and per port options. Looks like you can port existing numbers to them now. I used them 9-10 years ago and they were great to work with! IKANO bought them out since then, but they still operate under DialupUSA.net. They have DSL and T1 options too. - Jason On 10/17/15 10:23 AM, Clayton Zekelman wrote:
3Com TC here. 9 users online at the moment. Surprises me that it's that high. Last reboot on the HiperARC was 399 days ago. I almost forgot how to log on to the damned thing.
At one time we had over 3000 DS0s worth of dialup capacity.
At 09:37 AM 17/10/2015, frnkblk@iname.com wrote:
We're still using USR Robotics/3com TotalControls and were able to get some spare parts from our statewide telecom partner when they shut down their stuff. Most common problem we see now are fan failures, but we just cannabilize existing the fans out of a fan tray. The volume of calls are so low that there are no hours that no one is dialed in, and at most we see two people connected at one time.
Frank
-----Original Message----- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Will Duquette Sent: Friday, October 16, 2015 2:29 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Dial Up Solutions
Does anyone have any suggestions on equipment for our ISP that is still supporting dial up customers?
At the moment we are running 3Com Total Control 1000's but are running out of spare parts as we have failures. Given that this gear is so old trying to source spare parts is proving to be difficult.
We do have access to an Cisco AS5200 but are looking for maybe a SIP based solution that could possibly run on our VM farm? Has anyone heard of anything like that or does it even exist?
What kind of gear are you running if you still are supporting dial up customers?
Thanks in advance
-- Will Duquette GWI Network Systems Engineer www.gwi.net