Re: [hylafax-users] List of compatible modems

["George H" <george.dma@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 10, 2008 9:26 PM, Lukasz Szybalski <szybalski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

yeah sure it is easy. Just log in to your linux machine and run the
command "recvstats" like that and it should print out on the screen
all the senders who sent you faxes. It shows how many pages they sent
you and how many errors per-page including some other stats like speed
and data type.

Then what I do from there is see which senders have the most errors or
percentage of errors. Then I scan the xferfaxlog file for their number
and from there I can get the log file name.. it's the  c00000xxx ones.
Open up those and you should see any evidence of errors.

> 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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