[hylafax-users] Modem comparison

[Michael Crider <mcrider@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I work for a small electric utility that has one fax line.  We typically 
receive less than 30 faxes/day and send far fewer than that.  We have an 
existing NT-based fax server using a Dialogic single port fax board that 
is dying and due to be replaced.  I would like to migrate to a 
Linux-based fax server using Hylafax, but am unsure about what fax board 
to recommend.  Looking for board in the same class as the Dialogics, I 
had chosen the Mainpine Rockforce Duo.  We would only use one line on 
it, but Mainpine does not make a single line card.  However, I also ran 
across the Multitech MultimodemZPX, which apparently uses the same chip 
set as the Rockforce but is 5 times cheaper.  I was wondering if anyone 
had experience with either of these cards and could recommend which 
would best fit our needs.  Five years ago when we were first 
experimenting with the fax server idea we tried several modems (both 
internal and external, hardware and controllerless) and all had trouble 
with at least some fax machines we have to deal with on a daily basis.  
Because of that we have shied away from "just a modem".  However, from 
archives of this mailing list it looks like a lot of people use 
Multitech modems, and I wanted to know if others thought they were 
really good enough for a business setting.

Thanks.
Michael
Howell-Oregon Electric Cooperative
West Plains, MO

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