Re: [asterisk-users] FAX Issues

2011-08-11 Thread Doug Lytle
Thorolf Godawa wrote: My experience is, that faxing over IAXModem is not reliable. My experience is just the opposite, but I'm not faxing over IP. PRI, over slinear. Doug -- Ben Franklin quote: "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve ne

Re: [asterisk-users] FAX Issues

2011-08-11 Thread Thorolf Godawa
Hi, > In my office I have 1000 ext, each users has it's own DID number. > What I would like is that each user can get a fax using his own number. I'm fighting with this since some time too. My experience is, that faxing over IAXModem is not reliable. So I'm going with T38Modem, my provider also

Re: [asterisk-users] FAX Issues

2011-08-10 Thread Eric Wieling
> -Original Message- > From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users- > boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Lee Howard > Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2011 7:22 PM > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > Subject: Re: [asterisk

Re: [asterisk-users] FAX Issues

2011-08-09 Thread Steve Totaro
Off topic but cool tech. One of the defunct Asterisk Appliance's was based on the Altix 350. http://www.sgi.com/products/servers/altix/numalink.html On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 12:12 AM, Steve Totaro wrote: > I do love this stuff.  Being self taught, Asterisk actually made me > learn LAMP from the

Re: [asterisk-users] FAX Issues

2011-08-09 Thread Steve Totaro
I do love this stuff. Being self taught, Asterisk actually made me learn LAMP from the command line. I was a pure Windows and Cisco guy, all self taught since the VIC20 and Commodore 64, I taught myself BASIC. Anyways, just like anything you need to define the job before you attempt to choose th

Re: [asterisk-users] FAX Issues

2011-08-09 Thread C F
Guys in my opinion this thread has been very productive. Which proves one thing, as many people you are going to ask about faxing with asterisk that many opinions you are going to get (maybe even add +1 opinions :P). In the end it depends on your experience, hence I asked the OP to try for himself.

Re: [asterisk-users] FAX Issues

2011-08-09 Thread C F
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Steve Totaro wrote: > On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 5:21 PM, C F wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Sassy Natan wrote: >>> Hi, >>> I would like to make sure I got it right: >>> 1. Asterisk 1.4 doesn't support FAX support. It do however works if u sent >>> fax from

Re: [asterisk-users] FAX Issues

2011-08-09 Thread Steve Totaro
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Lee Howard wrote: > Steve Totaro wrote: >> >> On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Lee Howard >> wrote: >> >>> >>> Ryan McGuire wrote: >>> Unless your network is under load and you are seeing dropped packets and high jitter, I would absolutely not do T.38

Re: [asterisk-users] FAX Issues

2011-08-09 Thread Lee Howard
Steve Totaro wrote: On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Lee Howard wrote: Ryan McGuire wrote: Unless your network is under load and you are seeing dropped packets and high jitter, I would absolutely not do T.38. The cheapest and easiest approach that I have found is to buy yourself an FXS

Re: [asterisk-users] FAX Issues

2011-08-09 Thread Steve Totaro
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 8:13 PM, Steve Totaro wrote: > On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 6:15 PM, Ryan McGuire wrote: >> Unless your network is under load and you are seeing dropped packets >> and high jitter, I would absolutely not do T.38. The cheapest and >> easiest approach that I have found is to buy yo

Re: [asterisk-users] FAX Issues

2011-08-09 Thread Steve Totaro
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 6:15 PM, Ryan McGuire wrote: > Unless your network is under load and you are seeing dropped packets > and high jitter, I would absolutely not do T.38. The cheapest and > easiest approach that I have found is to buy yourself an FXS gateway > and just make sure you are using u

Re: [asterisk-users] FAX Issues

2011-08-09 Thread Steve Totaro
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Lee Howard wrote: > Ryan McGuire wrote: >> >> Unless your network is under load and you are seeing dropped packets >> and high jitter, I would absolutely not do T.38. The cheapest and >> easiest approach that I have found is to buy yourself an FXS gateway >> and jus

Re: [asterisk-users] FAX Issues

2011-08-09 Thread Steve Totaro
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Sassy Natan wrote: > Ok, > Thanks > But what is the NVFAX? Does 1.4 support getting faxes per extension? > In my office I have 1000 ext, each users has it's own DID number. DIDs are cheap, get 1000 extra DIDs specific to that user's fax. It is classy to have your

Re: [asterisk-users] FAX Issues

2011-08-09 Thread Lee Howard
Ryan McGuire wrote: Unless your network is under load and you are seeing dropped packets and high jitter, I would absolutely not do T.38. The cheapest and easiest approach that I have found is to buy yourself an FXS gateway and just make sure you are using ulaw. As SIP is usually running over U

Re: [asterisk-users] FAX Issues

2011-08-09 Thread Patrick Lists
On 08/10/2011 12:00 AM, Steve Totaro wrote: Try iaxmodem and hylafax. Alex B did a very nice writeup on how to set that up so that it works very well. Could not agree more. I have been using a box with an Eicon Diva Server card, asterisk 1.4, chan_capi, iaxmodem & hylafax for many years and

Re: [asterisk-users] FAX Issues

2011-08-09 Thread Sassy Natan
Ok, Thanks But what is the NVFAX? Does 1.4 support getting faxes per extension? In my office I have 1000 ext, each users has it's own DID number. What I would like is that each user can get a fax using his own number. I'm running version 1.4.29 under Debian, and FreePBX under a sip trunk. It w

Re: [asterisk-users] FAX Issues

2011-08-09 Thread Ryan McGuire
Unless your network is under load and you are seeing dropped packets and high jitter, I would absolutely not do T.38. The cheapest and easiest approach that I have found is to buy yourself an FXS gateway and just make sure you are using ulaw. Is this for personal use, or for business use? One feat

Re: [asterisk-users] FAX Issues

2011-08-09 Thread Steve Totaro
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 5:21 PM, C F wrote: > On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Sassy Natan wrote: >> Hi, >> I would like to make sure I got it right: >> 1. Asterisk 1.4 doesn't support FAX support. It do however works if u sent >> fax from the PSTN and have anther FAX machine answer to it even if i

Re: [asterisk-users] FAX Issues

2011-08-09 Thread C F
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Sassy Natan wrote: > Hi, > I would like to make sure I got it right: > 1. Asterisk 1.4 doesn't support FAX support. It do however works if u sent > fax from the PSTN and have anther FAX machine answer to it even if it is > behind asterisk. This works like any regula

[asterisk-users] FAX Issues

2011-08-09 Thread Sassy Natan
Hi, I would like to make sure I got it right: 1. Asterisk 1.4 doesn't support FAX support. It do however works if u sent fax from the PSTN and have anther FAX machine answer to it even if it is behind asterisk. This works like any regular phone, and as far as I know this mode known as T.38 pass t

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Fax Issues

2005-08-15 Thread Joseph
On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 12:40 -0700, Matt wrote: > I have a user who has a fax machine plugged into an ATA. > They are able to SEND faxes just fine. Faxes go through wonderfully. > However, when someone tries to send them a fax, their fax machine > never receives it. And eventually the sending mach

[Asterisk-Users] Fax Issues

2005-08-15 Thread Matt
I have a user who has a fax machine plugged into an ATA. They are able to SEND faxes just fine. Faxes go through wonderfully. However, when someone tries to send them a fax, their fax machine never receives it. And eventually the sending machine just errors out. Any thoughts? ___