More problems sending fax on USR Sportster

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If this is VERY important to you - you should be using a courier. Even when
you get the sportster to work, it doesn't work as well as a courier. Even
courier has some problems as Gert has pointed out in an earlier post, but is
MUCH more reliable than the sportster.

fax is VERY important to me as well and I would not consider a sportster. I
did use them before and got them working OK, but they had other weird
problems that I don't see with my couriers.

BTW The price has come way down from a few years ago. Here in Canada the
externals are around $300 wholesale where the sportsters are still around
$200. This is not enough difference IMO to cheap out. Especially if you need
to depend on it..

Tim
-----Original Message-----
From: Maciej 'Tycoon' Majchrowski <tycoon@t19.ml.org>
To: mgetty@muc.de <mgetty@muc.de>
Date: Friday, June 26, 1998 1:52 PM
Subject: More problems sending fax on USR Sportster


>At 04:49 PM 6/24/98 +0200, Gert Doering wrote:
>
>>Documentation says: use 'ignore-carrier yes' (in sendfax.config) if you
>>get that error message.
>
>Thnx Gert, I haven't noticed it, while I was reading sendfax.conf
>documentation...
>
>
>On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Devin Redlich wrote:
>
>>On a Sportster X2 that I bought about 4 months ago, even this didn't fix
>>the problem.  NOTHING would make that modem fax out more than one page.
>>Swapping out the Sportster for a Courier *immediately* fixed every problem
>>I was having with sendfax.
>
>I've got two USR Sportsters behind local PBX - one on machine with linux
>and another one with win95.
>After setting 'ignore-carrier yes' I can fax more than 1 page page from
>linux to win95. That modem on win95 can easily fax to number outside and
>everything work (really) good. But I can't make USR Sportster to fax even
>one page to the same number outside the local PBX (I don't forget to
include
>outgoing string).
>
>I don't know whats going on... Can't really USR Sportster be made to fax
>correctly usign linux software (I have to do it in one company)
>Maybe there are other not so expensive modems I can use with sendfax.
>Or mayby juz another software? (efax or hylafax) but after I've read about
>them I thought that mgetty+sendfax is the best choice.
>
>Another thing is to make that USR Sportster usign 'vm' (from vgetty
package)
>to send voice info in case when fax connection cann't be established
>(sending request for switching line into modem) but I don't think about it
>up to now... Sending fax is the most important problem.
>
>It's really VERY important for me... so please answer if you know something
>what can help me solve that strange problem...
>
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