Re: flexfax: Solaris 2.5 Modem Replacement for USR

[Nico Garcia <raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu>]

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On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Nicola Carter wrote:

> We are running Hylafax 4.0 PL 1.0 under Solaris 2.5. We have 
> experienced the USR Sportster Class 2 Transmit Phase B error, and are 
> currently running with an old USR Sportster 14,400 in Class 1 mode 
> with 50-60% success (failure to retrain after the cover page causes 
> 3-4 blank pages to spew out at the destination before the rest of the 
> fax oes through). A SUPRA FAX V.32 bis modem did not recover from 
> that retrain after the first page.  We have experimented with flow 
> control to no avail.
> 
> We could hobble along with the USR 14,400, putting up with the extra 
> pages during retrain, for a while. Do any of you have a modem 
> recommendation for this configuration? Or conversely, a 
> modem-not-to-use? I notice that the pages with happy-face modem 
> recommendations are somewhat out-of-date.

You gain little from using 33.6 modems for fax. The higher baud rates are
for *data*, not fax....


			Nico Garcia
			Engineer, CIRL 
			Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary
			raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu

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