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3.1 KiB
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152 lines
3.1 KiB
HTML
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>Warning</TITLE
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NAME="GENERATOR"
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CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.60"><LINK
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REL="HOME"
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HREF="index.html"><LINK
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REL="PREVIOUS"
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TITLE="Introduction"
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HREF="introduction.html"><LINK
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REL="NEXT"
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TITLE="What do you need to install a BocaBoard?"
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HREF="requiredmaterials.html"></HEAD
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BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"
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>Prev</A
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NAME="WARNING"
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>2. Warning</A
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><P
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>Multi-Port serial cards, such as the BocaBoard, are all but dead.
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If you are in business as an Internet Service Provider (ISP), you will not want
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to use any of these devices, because the new 56k modem standards will not
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support them. Instead, you need digital modem/terminal server combinations such
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as the Livingston PM3 ™ , Cisco 5200 ™ or US Robotics Total
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Control ™. Otherwise, you simply won't be competitive in major markets.
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Users want high speeds; you won't be able to provide them with a BocaBoard or
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other multi-port serial card.</P
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><P
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>Even as a multi-port serial card, the BocaBoard is hopelessly
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obsolete. The overwhelming majority of people who want to buy a BocaBoard would
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be better off getting a accelerated card such as the Cyclades™ or
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Rocketport™. (When last I looked, Rocketport™ was a better board,
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but Cyclades™ had the most stable kernel support). Accelerated cards use
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less of the CPU of your machine, and so you can support more ports per computer
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with less performance degradation.</P
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><P
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>That being said, perhaps you own one of these devices and want to
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make use of it, or perhaps you are planning an ISP based on a low-cost business
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model that basically means the use of cast-off equipment from others. In that
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case, the information in this document should be useful for you. But again, I
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repeat: The person who buys a new BocaBoard at this point probably needs a few
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more clues before starting his ISP or other venture.</P
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WIDTH="33%"
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HREF="introduction.html"
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>Prev</A
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WIDTH="34%"
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ALIGN="center"
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VALIGN="top"
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HREF="index.html"
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>Home</A
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>Next</A
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>Introduction</TD
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WIDTH="33%"
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>What do you need to install a BocaBoard?</TD
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