On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 06:57:34PM +0100, Ben Merrills wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  
> 
> Has anyone got faxing working via an IAXy? I'm having trouble getting it
> working with a fax machine here. The IAXy works fine, I can make
> incoming/outgoing calls via it, however our PDQ takes a few redials to
> get data over to the dialled party, and faxing doesn't seem to work at
> all.
> 
>  
> 
> I have turned off all the echo cancellation stuff, just in case that was
> an issue. Anything I should try, has anyone had any luck doing this
> either here in the UK or elsewhere?
> 

I spent many, many days attempting the same thing. I could get 5-6 pages sent 
relatively reliably but slowly. Then about the 7th page it would start retrying pages 
and retrain slower and slower until it crapped out between the 8th and 17th page. This 
would average > 90sec per page. When I took the IAXy and * out of the loop it would 
take approximately 10-15 seconds per page. This is with a 100mb network and the * box 
and IAXy plugged into the same switch. The Zap interface had all echo cancellation 
turned off etc. etc. I tried all sorts fo different configurations that left the only 
common denominator being the IAXy.

 From what I have read, it is an issue with timing. That perhaps since the IAXy does 
not have a similiar timer to the * box there is enough drift that a  few packets get 
lost when crossing a timing boundary. I don't completely understand the fax 
methodology but I do know that it is very timing dependant and does not work properly 
with the IAXy. This is with firmware 17 and 18. Maybe a later firmware can resolve it, 
who knows.

Cheers
Scott Petersen
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