Hi all, Just thought some of you other fax / modem users might not yet know a nice free service offered by Telecom for testing fax transmission quality. It is called FaxRight and works as follows: you send a fax to 0800-108208. After a short time you will receive a fax with a detailed report about transmission quality, including an equalization graph.
This might also be handy for the "rurally challenged" among us. If you have trouble with normal dial-up via modem, you could use this fax test to get an idea of how good or bad your connection is on an end-to-end basis. If quality is bad (high noise, bad equalization) it may be the modem, or the line, or both. In that case, take the modem to a place with reportedly good quality connection, and try it again from there. If there is a real improvement, the line is the problem. Only drawback of this fax test: it works at 9600 baud, so results for a fast modem might be different for dial-up. Cheers, Helmut. +----------------+ | Helmut Walle | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | +----------------+
