Re: Dial Up Solutions

[Jason Canady <jason () unlimitednet us>]

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