Re: flexfax: MultiTech MT2834ZDXV recommendation?

[David Birnbaum <davidb@chelsea.net>]

On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Dave Lewis wrote:

> Sorry about being vague.  In our modem pool, we have one MultiTech 
> (1432BA), one AT&T (with which I'm having the phase B/C comm. errors), 
> and 7 USRobitics 14400's.  Of the nine modems, the MultiTech seems to 
> have the least number of failed transmissions;  I wish all our modems 
> were of this type.  Thanks, Dave Lewis

I can't be quite as happy - I have a USR Courier, a MultiTech MT2834ZDX,
and a Telebit WorldBlazer.  Of the three, the USR seems to be the most
stable.  The MT seems to, every 50-100 faxes or so, "time out" and I get
an error message "Unable to configure modem for fax use".  The next fax to
that modem goes fine, so its clearly a very strange and transient problem,
but in the meantime, the fax that died needs to be resubmitted because
HylaFax kills the job rather than reroute it to another modem.  Anybody
interested in rexamining that behavior?

I'm getting ready to install a bank of 8 USR 33.6 modems, though -
leftover from a dial-in pool upgrade, I hope to get it functioning in the
next few weeks.

David.

> On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, Prof. Julio C. Spinelli wrote:
> 
> > I heard very good things about it from Dave from Ameritech. But he is now
> > trying to use an AT&T modem. Dave could you clarify this point for all of
> > us?
> > 
> > Why not use MultiTech?
> > 
> > Another point. Does anybody know of any fax modem that can detect the
> > tri-tone operator intercept tones, to distinguish between a busy/no answer
> > line and a wrong/disconnected/trunk busy/etc. number. Without this
> > feature, there is no way calls can be handled correctly.
> > 
> > Julio
> > 
> > On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, Larry Pyeatt wrote:
> > 
> > > Hello,
> > >   I have given up on my USR Sportster and am looking for a modem that
> > > works.
> > > Has anyone used the MT2834ZDXV with hylafax?  If so, does it work well?
> > > 
> > > Thanks.
> > > 
> > > --
> > > Larry D. Pyeatt                     All standard disclaimers apply.
> > > pyeatt@cs.colostate.edu             Void where prohibited.
> > > http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~pyeatt
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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