Re: [hylafax-users] Hardware suggestions to get Hylafax running?

["Joshua Kinard" <jkinard@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Andrew,

I wish I had a reasonable budget to work with for this, but it's mostly a project I'm cooking up outside of what's been approved for this year.  We're looking at either shelling our $695 to Castelle to upgrade our 2-line Faxpress unit to their latest software model, or seeing whether I can devise something for the same price or less.  So I figured I'd start on the cheap-side of things and move upwards on the price range as I begin to assemble in my head the kinds of components needed, but try to stay under that $695 figure.

That said, even a 8-port fax modem board running $2k is way cheaper than an 8-port Faxpress unit at $9k.  I could buy almost 3 DL385's for that price...

Cheers,

--J


-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Rinaldi [mailto:andrew.rinaldi@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 3:16 PM
To: Joshua Kinard
Cc: hylafax-users@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [hylafax-users] Hardware suggestions to get Hylafax
running?


Joshua Kinard wrote:
> So I guess, I was wondering if anyone here had suggestions on a good, but cheap, ~8 port modem card would be, or maybe even ISDN/T1 cards, and whether hylafax can communicate with any of them.  It seems Brooktrout's are the tricky ones currently, so I guess those are out (have to see with the MPM-8, though).

Hi Josh,

I would strongly suggest that you think very seriously about your desire 
to deploy cheap fax hardware.  Many, many, people who make this mistake 
spend forever nursing their systems, and I've lost count of the number 
of times we have 'rescued' failed fax server deployments.

In the fax hardware business you really do get what you pay for.

Regards

Andrew Rinaldi
Mainpine Developer Support
USA +1 503 822 9944 | UK +44 8458 909438
andrew.rinaldi@xxxxxxxxxxxx | www.mainpine.com


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