Re: flexfax: Hylafax Installation -- A Plea for Help

[Darren Nickerson <darren@hylafax.org>]

>>>>> On Sun, 28 May 2000, "Dave" == Dave Wreski wrote:

  Dave> Just what is it with the USR's that make them not work?  IIRC, WinFax
  Dave> actually suggests these modems as the modem of choice...

USRs are OK in Class1. Sometimes. HylaFAX still does not like them a lot of 
the time even in Class1. See my retraction on one model just recently ;-)

IIRC most of the personal (Windoze) fax apps drive modems in Class1, the 
simplest and most reliable way to operate in a low-latency, high resource 
setup such as a single workstation.

Basically, they work on the principle of lowest common denominator, and they 
get away with it most of the time! Just think of the test bed they have . . . 
if we had that many users pounding on HylaFAX I bet we'd pretty rapidly build 
up a robust set of modem configs to cope with most models, and we'd be driving 
them in Class 2 as well!

;-)

-Darren