<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000'>I'm pretty sure all analog ports don't take a device license, so this is the route I take with VG248 and VG224. It makes it much easier in the long run for procedures.<br><br>---<br>Lelio Fulgenzi, B.A.<br>Senior Analyst (CCS) * University of Guelph * Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1<br>(519) 824-4120 x56354 (519) 767-1060 FAX (JNHN)<br>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^<br>Cooking with unix is easy. You just sed it and forget it. <br> - LFJ (with apologies to Mr. Popeil)<br><br><br>----- Original Message -----<br>From: "Jeff Ruttman" <ruttmanj@carewisc.org><br>To: cisco-voip@puck.nether.net<br>Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 8:54:15 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern<br>Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] What's the pro and con for ATA, compared to FXS<br><br>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="021282212-11052010"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial">How do you disable an unused port on an ATA?</font></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="021282212-11052010"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial">I don't know that we've experienced calls dropping, but you are
right that an unused port does try to connect to CM and at the least
generates lots of fails in the event logs. I go ahead and add the second
port into CM, so it can register, and I just don't configure a line on it.
This stops the error messages and perhaps stops calls dropping as you
describe.</font></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="021282212-11052010"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial">I only have experience with ATAs and largely they've been
OK. Most problems have been fixed by using 9600 or 14400 baud rates on fax
machines, and I think we also had to disable Super G3 on a couple newer
fax/copiers.</font></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="021282212-11052010"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial">Thanks</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="021282212-11052010"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial">jeff</font></span></div></font></div><br>
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<font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net
[mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>polo
person<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, May 11, 2010 3:54 AM<br><b>To:</b>
junks2you@gmail.com; cisco-voip@puck.nether.net<br><b>Subject:</b> Re:
[cisco-voip] What's the pro and con for ATA, compared to
FXS<br></font><br></div>
<div></div>My experience of ATA's and faxes is not good. We have a combination
of faxes + VG224 and faxes + ATA and I only seem to get problems with the ATA's.
Quite often they will get their knickers in a twist and stop giving dial tone,
and a power off / on sorts them out and they will then work again for
a few months. Other times I get problems with fax transmission, ranging
from failed sending / receiving to a fax being sent and received ok, but
the sending fax machine reports it didn't get delivered so it proceeds to
send it again...and again...and again... (very frustrating for the
recipient!) The solution to this one was to drop the speed of fax
transmission down to 14400 and this cured the problem.<br> <br>One
thing to be wary of is that if the second ATA port is not being used, you must
disable it. If you don't you will get calls dropping as the ATA will reset
occasionally when the second port tries to talk to the CM, but as it isnt
configured it doesent get very far. If a call is in progress on port 1 at the
time it will get dropped.<br> <br>Faxes on our VG224's seem to work on
the main with very few problems (mostly fax passthrough, some fax
relay). We have CM 6.1.3.something_odd..... and are en-route to CM7
them CM8 over the course of this year.
<br> <br>Cheers<br> <br>Simon<br> <br>
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Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 15:59:15 +0800<br>From: junks2you@gmail.com<br>To:
cisco-voip@puck.nether.net<br>Subject: [cisco-voip] What's the pro and con for
ATA, compared to FXS<br><br>Hi Guys,<br><br>Can anyone explain to me what the
pros and cons of ATA? We got both FXS and ATA 186 for FAXing in a call
manager 7 controled environment.<br><br>Regards,<br><br>Charlie<br><br>
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