Sportsters have known issues with fax handshakes, actually. Multitech makes 
the best modems for faxing, the external 33.6 will provide perfect service 
with no problems 99.999% of the time.

Jonathan

At 07:43 AM 8/18/2000 +0200, you wrote:

>>The fax modem in question is a USRobotics Sportster 56K internal on a 
>>dedicated phone line - nothing odd or unusual.
>
>Sorry, sucky faxmodem.
>
>Can you borrow another modem? Maybe an old courrier, a zyxel 1496 or 
>newer?  I bet there's just some handshake pb between the fax driver and 
>the modem, forgetting about the (in)ability of Sportster faxmodem to 
>connect to fax machines.  The fax company, GFIfax.com, explicitly 
>recommend against Sportsters, and my experience, in Sportster vs Zyxel 
>1496 comparison, under Symantec Winfax (a pgm that know a thing or two 
>about faxmodem drivers) showed the Sportster to be really crappy.
>
>Len
>
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