Re: [hylafax-users] Problem receiving faxes from a particular fax machine / need workaround or fix

[Nigel Allen <dna@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 26/04/2008 10:29 AM, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:

On Thu 24 Apr 2008 13:52:34 NZST +1200, Lee Howard wrote:

  

I am not completely shocked that you are suggesting this :)  I actually 
hunted high and low to find a place that actually sells MODEMS anymore 
nevermind a modem that isn't a 'soft' modem.
      

Ha ha, join the club. Even external modems are rubbish these days, with
functionality only partially supported, or supposedly supported but
quietly not implemented. Let alone any of it tested. The previous-model
ones were slightly better, but not up-to-date with the telephone system.
There's always one thing or other why it doesn't work. And if it's
USB-connected you never know whether it's a soft-knockoff (if it doesn't
need an FTDI driver, it most probably is).

Speaking of which, I'd be dead keen to know what the experts think of
the reliability of a USB-FTDI-RS232-connected hardware modem? No issues
I can blame on the USB/FTDI part, but I haven't had it in a situation
where it's been hammered.

  

Well, Mainpine does sell direct.  :-)  But, I don't recall ever having a 
hard time shopping for modems on-line.
    

In the USA, maybe. I'm in New Zealand. As everywhere, stuff has to be
telepermitted, and the only way to do that is to have a local company
either import it or make it (the latter being increasingly uneconomic).
The "authorised reseller" (note singular) for Australia and New Zealand
mainpine.com lists on their website doesn't even bother to mention
mainpine anywhere (google mainpine site:obcrest.co.nz).
  

I see the same problem here in Aus. I have in the end resorted to using "old" modems that people have had sitting on the shelf "just in case" for the last 5 or 10 years. We have had more success doing this than with any new modems we've tried..

Volker