<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">we use FXS ports on the routers and
force fax pass through. With that it works great and almost always
works with SG3 faxing speeds</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">We moved away from ATA's for this reason</font>
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<br><tt><font size=2>On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 20:27 -0500, Simon, Bill wrote:<br>
> If you think about all the conversions a fax goes through on VoIP,
it's <br>
> a wonder it EVER works.<br>
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> Paper -> digitized -> made into analog noises -> converted
to bits for <br>
> VoIP -> sent over ethernet or to a voice gateway -> converted
back to <br>
> analog -> digitally reconstructed -> printed onto paper.<br>
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> Something just seems very wrong about that.<br>
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The process becomes incredibly daunting if you break down each of those<br>
steps, but that way madness lay...<br>
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> A "cleaner" solution, truthfully, would be to buy a pots
line for your <br>
> fax.<br>
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That's about $30,000 a year for the 50 or so affected machines, spread<br>
out in about 35 cities, *after* saving that $30,000 by converting faxes<br>
to VoIP<br>
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> Or transmit by scan/e-mail. Hey, it's more secure anyway.<br>
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At least 90% of my users are very non-technical. They have incredible<br>
knowledge of plumbing parts and supplies, but it's tough enough for them<br>
to use a fax machine with speed dials to their locations. Many do not<br>
even have a PC. The wholesale distribution software that we use (and<br>
sell to competitors, I might add) is text based and many of those users<br>
do everything they need to on a Wyse 60 terminal. Further, many of their<br>
customers are very small businesses that probably wouldn't have a fax<br>
machine at all if we didn't have enough market clout to make it worth<br>
their while.<br>
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All that aside, my biggest fax problems are between big branch offices<br>
and their largest customers and between my corporate credit department<br>
and many of those same biggest customers, so just about everyone has a<br>
nice fax machine, as opposed to some cheap junk. Ironically, the nice<br>
machines tend to have G3 modems and that appears to be where the problem<br>
is heading.<br>
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One possible solution seems to be the use of FXS ports on the routers,<br>
as opposed to ATAs and I have the engineer working towards testing that<br>
out.<br>
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