[Asterisk-Users] Fax with SPA-2000's?

[Lee Howard]

On 2004.06.18 23:15 Seth Mattinen wrote:
> I've been trying to get fax reception to work using an SPA-2000 to 
> ring the fax machine or modem that's taking fax calls. I was curious 
> if anyone else had tried something similar, and if so, had any luck 
> getting it to work reliably. I've been able to get it to work, but it 
> isn't reliable. (Pages/lines of black dots result more frequently 
> than not.) The incoming lines are FXO and going to something digital 
> isn't an option. My setup looks like this:
> 
> POTS <---> X100P FXO <--> Asterisk <--> SPA-2000 SIP <--> Fax

I've got the same configuration, and it works fine, but I had to 
disable V.17 (i.e, 14400 baud).  V.27, V.29, and *V.34* all seem work 
just fine, however.  There seems to be some kind of incompatibility 
between Asterisk and V.17 (this isn't surprising, many PBXs screw up 
V.17 communications).

Lee.