Re: [hylafax-users] hylalax can ot negotiate MPS

[Mark Ratering <techsupport@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rance Hall wrote:

> Lee:
>
> The answer to your question about my motivation for choosing class 2 
> as opposed to class 1 got me to thinking.
>
> The answer is probably ignorance.
>
> You see, this was my first project of this kind and hylafax seemed a 
> natural choice with an active user comminity and my commitment to use 
> open source when possible.
>
> The documentation spent all of 5 sentences (that I found) explaining 
> what the 5 different class options were, but it didnt seem to explain 
> the consequences of a particular choice, and I innoncently figured 
> that a newer protocol must mean more options.
>
> I'm an IT department of one here, and its very difficult to rely on 
> yourself when you know you dont know what you are doing.  But you are 
> confident that you can muddle through and figure it out.  This 
> requires a major dependance on the user community, and you have been 
> great (all of you).
>
> So, I'd suggest  some sort of "decision school" that explains what the 
> decisions are and what they mean to the course of your hylafax 
> experience, because as we all know, good setup and initial 
> configuration can fix 80-90 % of all problems.
>
> Just my two cents worth
>
> Rance
>
>
> Lee Howard wrote:
>
> > Rance Hall wrote:
> >
> > > Switching the modem to a class 1 device and changeing the flow 
> > > control worked.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Out of curiosity, why did you choose Class 2 in the first place?  
> > What could the software have done differently to have helped you to 
> > choose Class 1 at that time instead?
> >
> > Lee.

I do distinctly remember the documentation recommending Class 2.  It 
said it was the most advanced but at the same time was harder to debug.

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