Re: [hylafax-users] Questions about Hylafax install & machine speed

[John Hudak <john.j.hudak@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello:
Thank you for the reply...a followup question, if you don't mind...
"issue is if the server is going to be doing the document conversion from format X to tiff/fax."

I haven't worked with hyla so forgive me if this is an incorrect perception (altho I have read through the manual & FAQs online as well as some of the client descriptions)...So if I use the client to send a 20 page MSWord document to the server, the server performs a transformation to tiff/fax format. Would you say the conversion would take 2-3 minutes? 5-10 minutes? more? with the 233 mhz machine?  (I also presume that if the conversion process is preempted by a incoming fax, the outgoing service will resume and successfully complete after the incoming fax is received?). 
Is it possible to have the client do the transformation, or another program on one of the client PCs, and send the faxible image to the server?
Again, thank you for the replies...
Sincerely
John

Adam Tauno Williams wrote:

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3.The fax load perhaps 3-5 incoming faxes a day (each about 3-5 pages), and perhaps 2-3 outgoing faxes a day, with as many as 20 pages.  Again the question is there enough HP both on the PC send/receive end, as well as the network end? The network bw is 100 GB/sec
4. The fax modem is a USR Courier V everything, connected via a serial line. The PC serial port is a 9-pin 'com2' connection that support the typical small subset of modem control lines (e.g. tx/rx/cts/rts/dsr/dcd/ri).  Will this setup work adequately with Hylafax?
I have installed, used, and did minimal development in many unix systems over the last 20 years, so I am fairly familar with the OS, but I don't know any of them inside and out. 
    

I don't think the faxing would be a problem,  I've run Hyla on less
powerful machines than that.

This issue is if the server is going to be doing the document conversion
from format X to tiff/fax.  If you fax a large (20+ pages) postscript
document and expect the server to do this lifting it can be quite
resource intensive.


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