Super G3 will be your undoing with FoIP even if you can get normal <= G3 faxing reasonably reliable over T.38.
-- Sent from mobile device On Mar 29, 2010, at 1:30 PM, Rob Rothberg <[email protected]> wrote: > That was really the issue. I had zero control over the recipient. It > was not uncommon for an end point to be using a 15 yo fax machine. > Someone else above mentioned 95% Success. That might be ok for many > but for us that would have meant dozens if not hundreds of faxes a day > didn't make it. Hopefully there is enough info here now for the > original poster to understand the issues and decide if t.38 is for > him. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Mar 29, 2010, at 1:16 PM, James Sharp <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Rob Rothberg wrote: >>> Hylafax is reliable, but faxing over IP is not particularly >>> reliable. I >>> used hylafax + asterisk + TDMoE (RedFone FoneBridge 2 which I have >>> for >>> sale) to bulk fax thousands of payment due notices every day >>> without a >>> glitch, but I was using voice channels on a T-1 to handle the >>> faxing. >>> T.38 really wasn't a practical option when I implemented this >>> several >>> years ago. Not sure if that has changed at all. BTW, if you need >>> someone that really knows his Hylafax, I have an awesome reference >>> for >>> someone I found on the Hylafax group who was one of the individuals >>> doing maintenance on the Hylafax sources. Used him for 3 years and >>> he >>> was always there when I needed him. He's pretty well versed in >>> Asterisk >>> as well. >> >> If your end points can do T.38 properly, it works great. I used to >> do >> tons of T.38 faxing over the public internet as well as across 500+ms >> VSAT links to customers. The only problems I ever ran into were fax >> machines that didn't quite adhere to standards. >> >> The customer endpoints were Quintum A200 or A400 boxes and the >> termination equipment was a Quintum CMS-960. >> >> -- >> _____________________________________________________________________ >> -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- >> >> asterisk-biz mailing list >> To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: >> http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz > > -- > _____________________________________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > asterisk-biz mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
