[asterisk-users] RE: Bottom line on fax reception

[Jon Pounder]

Quoting Steve Totaro <stotaro at asteriskhelpdesk.com>:

> Please qualify your usage.  A couple faxes a day, a couple hundred, a
> couple thousand, or a couple hundred thousand?


well what is your usage where it doesn't work ?

I would like to know where it does and doesn't work as well but so far  
various groups have conflicting opinions.



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> Are you running asterisk and hylafax on the same machine?  What is your
> TDM connectivity?
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> Hylafax uses quite a lot of CPU juice.  Anyone ever scale up a quad
> T1/E1 server for faxing using asterisk and hylafax?  Must be a heck of a
> server!
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> Thanks,
> Steve Totaro
> http://www.asteriskhelpdesk.com
> <http://www.asteriskhelpdesk.com/component/option,com_wrapper/Itemid,37/
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> KB3OPB
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> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Greg
> Kennedy
> Sent: Monday, May 28, 2007 4:02 PM
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Subject: [asterisk-users] RE: Bottom line on fax reception
>
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> I gave up on the rxfax business as it never worked for me. I use
> iaxmodem and hylafax and it works perfectly, every single time i use it.
> inbound or outbound doesnt matter.
> I have not read about anyone using iaxmodem and hylafax having any
> issues. and its fairly easy to setup. Took me about 1 hour total to get
> everything installed and configured.
>
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>> Message: 3
>> Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 08:20:22 -0700
>> From: "shadowym" <shadowym at hotmail.com>
>> Subject: RE: [asterisk-users] Bottom line on fax reception
>> To: "'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion'"
>> <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
>> Message-ID: <BAY102-DAV63A72E6A5A730F28AC8E8DD280 at phx.gbl>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
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>> Anybody??
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: shadowym [mailto:shadowym at hotmail.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 9:35 AM
>> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
>> Subject: [asterisk-users] Bottom line on fax reception
>>
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>> So what is the bottom line? Does it work or not. I've heard stories it
>> works, it doesn't work, it kinda sorta works when it's not raining out
> side.
>> Everything under the rainbow.
>>
>> What's the bottom line with recent updates on 1.2.x? Is it production
> ready
>> for fax? By production ready I mean that it just works all the time
> and
>> doesn't need any babysitting. Do I have to worry about dropped lines,
>> sometimes not detecting incoming fax tone....yada yada.
>>
>> I know I don't have to use fax on Asterisk but I really want to for
> various
>> reasons. Mostly incoming but outgoing is a nice to have. Should I use
> an
>> addon package and if so which one? Any help would be appreciated.
>>
>> Message: 6
>> Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 11:38:01 -0400
>> From: "Steve Totaro" <stotaro at asteriskhelpdesk.com>
>> Subject: RE: [asterisk-users] Bottom line on fax reception
>> To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion"
>> <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
>> Message-ID:
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> <DFB93BD730105941BD1A782A1EE9E95C16466D at 1-0fa9e300af524.asteriskhelpdesk
> .com>
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>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
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>> Someone already answered this question. The answer is no, it does not
>> work by your definition of production ready.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Steve Totaro
>> http://www.asteriskhelpdesk.com
>> KB3OPB
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Jon Pounder

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