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Redguy
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Joined: Apr 19, 2004
Posts: 4
Posted:
Tue Apr 20, 2004 7:01 pm
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I changed my bandwith to 50 from 90 today and everything is back to normal and working great. We will see how long this lasts.
ckoehncke
Vonage Forum Senior
Joined: Jan 31, 2004
Posts: 104
Posted:
Wed Apr 21, 2004 9:51 am
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Faxing over an IP connection is well known and relatively well understood. It's known as FAX RELAY mode. A bit of the rub here is that the Cisco ATA 186 does not support FAX relay, instead when it hears a fax signal, it should automaticallly switch to the high bandwidth G711 codec and simply pass-thru the signal.
More information ...
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/788/ata-fax.html
The problem of this two fold, 1 - pass thru is done on a best effort basis, meaning if the two fax machines are particularly sensitive -- then communication could be corrupted or worst the connection lost. 2 - fax machines have a long issue of compatibility problems (go figure) each one have some particularly nuance in how they expect transmissions. The test gear market offers fax testing equpment that emulates 100's of various manufacturers -- for the most part compatibility has been achieved -- however the pass-thru mode can and does create problems. Meaning sometimes it works -- sometimes it doesn't.
It's unclear whether the Motorola devices simply supports pass-thru or true FAX RELAY mode (documentation unclear) -- my guess is that it's probably only
Summary
Faxing via IP has always been a bit hit or miss and clearly this hasn't changed. Lowering your transmission speed, fiddling with other settings will increase reliability but 100% perfection probably isn't likely.
danix
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Joined: Mar 14, 2004
Posts: 22
Posted:
Sun Apr 25, 2004 8:21 pm
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Well, a week or so later and I still cannot fax via either the brother or the HP I have here.
Vonage
customer service is useless and just keeps repeating "drop fax speed to 9600, install dsl filter, bla bla".
I've told them if this is not resolved by tomorrow I'm going back to POTS lines, this is so embarrassing. I've been sending a partial (1 of 4 pages) fax to a supplier daily for over a week now, not the best way to win more business for
Vonage
.
The only thing I can think of that might be an issue is that my Motorola is behind my router and modem. Voice works fine though and I can initiate a voice call on the fax line just fine, so I doubt that's it.
Any final suggestions before I punt?
danix
Vonage Forum Associate
Joined: Mar 14, 2004
Posts: 22
Posted:
Sun Apr 25, 2004 11:32 pm
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I called
Vonage
again. Got a nice guy who suggested he could make some changes that might help, if I had the bandwidth. We ran some tests and he said b/w was fine, so he made the changes. I tried faxing to him and was successful, but not to the number I've been trying all week. I figured it was probably an issue at the remote end so I thanked him.
I then tried faxing to 2 other numbers, both failed. I plugged the same fax machine into my home POTS line, and was able to immediately send to all 3 numbers I tried, including the original one that was an issue.
I can only conclude that faxing via
Vonage
is seriously broken, or at least my setup is, and if Verizon offers me anything close to
Vonage
pricing, I'm going back. I'm all for being an early adopter - if it works.
danix
Vonage Forum Associate
Joined: Mar 14, 2004
Posts: 22
Posted:
Mon Apr 26, 2004 11:16 pm
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Called tech support again tonight, they again made changes and had me reboot the adapter. Faxes again failed. AAARGH.
BobK
Full Forum Member
Joined: Mar 10, 2004
Posts: 50
Posted:
Tue Apr 27, 2004 4:56 am
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The only problem I have ever had was a line error in the middle of a long fax and the sending unit called me back and resumed where it left off.
danix
Vonage Forum Associate
Joined: Mar 14, 2004
Posts: 22
Posted:
Tue Apr 27, 2004 11:07 am
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They keep telling me to drop the line speed to 9600, but neither fax machine can do that. I will try a DSL filter on the line tonight and that's my last attempt.
TechguyGA
Vonage Forum Junior
Joined: Apr 27, 2004
Posts: 38
Location: North Georgia
Posted:
Tue Apr 27, 2004 11:37 am
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sYstEm wrote:
I got a funny feeling this whole
Voip
think ain't quite ready for prime time.
Close, but no cigar.
Not trying to be rude, but this isn't DATAoIP.
BobK
Full Forum Member
Joined: Mar 10, 2004
Posts: 50
Posted:
Tue Apr 27, 2004 11:47 am
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I don't think a filter will work with
Voip
. Most faxes have an auto fall back, where they negoaite the line speed, much like a modem does. I have faxed to many machines and received from many machines and have only a few errors, and thoes were auto corrected.
ckoehncke
Vonage Forum Senior
Joined: Jan 31, 2004
Posts: 104
Posted:
Tue Apr 27, 2004 12:40 pm
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It is truly interesting to watch the many posting concerning "how to send a fax via a
Voip
provider". More interesting is that
Voip
providers have "sold" the service often for it's fax capabilities.
The reality is faxing via the G.711 codec will not work 100% of the time. If you're uplink (which has to be a constant 90 kbps) glitches -- your fax machine or the receiving end can get upset and simply fail.
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