Re: [hylafax-users] 3com / USR feedback please

[Brian Thompson <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just curious, does H.323 fare any better? I was about to try a scenario
using a Cisco 2600 w/analog DID card to feed inbound voice and faxes
into asterisk->hylafax, but sounds like it might be doomed from the start.

Thanks,
Brian


Lee Howard wrote:

> Okay.  And just so we're all clear on this - it really wouldn't have 
> mattered if it had been Asterisk or Nortel or Avaya or whatever, it 
> was the SIP-over-uncontrolled-network that doomed this arrangement for 
> most faxing... it wasn't so much Asterisk's fault.  VoIP is often fine 
> for voice - but not for fax or data.
>
> Lee.
>
>
> Michael Hallager wrote:
>
> > It was over SIP.
> >
> >  
> >
> > > Plenty of people use Asterisk PBXes and send fax through them.  It all
> > > has to do with the setup.  If by "fibre link with about 2ms latency and
> > > plenty of bandwidth" you mean that you were trying to fax over SIP or
> > > IAX or some other VoIP connection, then I don't think that you're 
> > > making
> > > any new revelations.  However, if you have PSTN connections running 
> > > into
> > > your Asterisk PBX, and if you run IAXmodem over the loopback interface
> > > to Asterisk and HylaFAX on the same box, then many people have found
> > > that to be reliable.
> > >   
> >
> >
> > Michael Hallager
> > net trust ltd
> > www.networkstuff.co.nz p.09 839-1000
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