Re: [hylafax-users] List of compatible modems

[Lukasz Szybalski <szybalski@xxxxxxxxx>]

George H wrote:
> On Jan 10, 2008 9:02 PM, Lukasz Szybalski <szybalski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Jan 10, 2008 11:52 AM, Andrew Rinaldi <andrew.rinaldi@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Lucas wrote:
> > > > I am using 2 usr modems with no problems so I am not sure why USR wouldn't
> > > be compatible with hyalfax?
> > >
> > > Many more users report problems with USR modems than report success....
> > > indeed when you include the results from other fax servers the number is
> > > overwhelming.  If you look through the HylaFAX archives you will find many
> > > examples of USR bugs.... if I remember correctly Lee showed some examples
> > > this week.
> > How many of these complains refer to US Robotics; External: Model 5686E model
> >
> > If they have any other model then 5686E then I can't say it will work
> > with hylafax, but I can almost guarantee that 5686E will.
>
> You'll probably have to do what I did. See the statistics outputted by
> recvstats and see the percentage of errors overall.

Could you write down few commands for using recvstats?

recvstats ttyS1 ? or some other options?

I never used recvstats so if you could tell me what to look for ? what 
is success and what is not? how to get the percentage etc.


Lucas

 When I track down
> some cases it is the case that my USR modem does not return a OK,
> CONNECT, or ERROR response to a +FTH=3 command and then anything else
> after that the modem times out. So that's one bug with it that I saw.
>
> Another was sending batch faxes, it would send a fax twice, 1 with an
> error the second would succeed. Yeah it works with hylafax and it
> receives and sends.. but after a while you notice you need something
> better.
>
> Never tried the model you have, but if you get no errors reported by
> hylafax then I'd say you come across some good luck.
>
>
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