Re: [hylafax-users] Most reliable transmission?

[Steve Underwood <steveu@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/31/2011 03:03 PM, Amin Mozafari wrote:
> External serial modems are almost always OK for outbound faxing. But 
> Winmodems pose the problem. Success rate is terrible for outbound faxes.
iaxmodem is essentially a multi-channel winmodem. You can send many 
concurrent FAXes all day long with iaxmodem, with a very low failure 
rate - comparable to the best FAX boards.

A lot of modems - both serial and winmodems - have really poor FAX 
support, and give a high failure rate. On the other hand, one of the 
modems I regularly use for testing against the FAX modems in spandsp is 
a Genius winmodem, which uses the slmodem package for Linux. I can send 
or receive FAXes between those two all day with zero failures.

Winmodems have their issues, but so do other kinds of modem. I think 
they are excessively maligned.

Steve


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