Re: [hylafax-users] Sometimes send and never receive

["Chris Weiss" <cweiss@xxxxxxxxx>]

iax is a little different than a winmodem...

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 12:46 AM, Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Chris Weiss wrote:
>>
>> unless your server has a light load and your phone connection is
>> crystal clear, a soft modem is never going to be reliable for faxing.
>
> I've run 256 soft modems (IAXmodems) on one system (a single 2GHz 64-bit AMD
> CPU) all of them simultaneously either sending or receiving, and it wasn't a
> problem in the testing.  In fact, I did deliberately try to make it fail,
> and the point of failure was never the CPU load or memory load caused by the
> soft modems.  The most likely point of failure involving CPU or memory loads
> was due to more than a hundred Ghostscript image conversions of large image
> files that (in a contrived scenario) all happened at exactly the same
> moment.
>
> I'd venture to guess that the problem isn't so much with soft modems per se,
> but rather with the particular modem itself (soft or hard) being discussed.
>  In this case the OP was discussing Linuxant, and this list has seen a vast
> number of ill reports regarding Linuxant modems.
>
> As far as the need for crystal-clear connections... again, DSP tolerance
> will vary from modem to modem and it has relatively nothing to do with the
> modem being soft or hard.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Lee.
>


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