Re: Faxing and PCI (was Re: [Asterisk-Users] Digium cards, so disappointing !)

2006-04-18 Thread Olivier Krief
2006/4/17, Nicholas Kathmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I agree with Lee.I have about 30 machines in production using iaxmodemand hylafax which work perfectly.Most are running off of T1s, but someare on TDM400 and TDM2400s.I only use IBM servers (which are about twice the cost for the low end Dells), and

Re: Faxing and PCI (was Re: [Asterisk-Users] Digium cards, so disappointing !)

2006-04-18 Thread Nicholas Kathmann
Olivier Krief wrote: 2006/4/17, Nicholas Kathmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: I agree with Lee. I have about 30 machines in production using iaxmodem and hylafax which work perfectly. Most are running off of T1s, but some are on TDM400 and TDM2400s. I

Re: Faxing and PCI (was Re: [Asterisk-Users] Digium cards, so disappointing !)

2006-04-18 Thread Rich Adamson
Andrew Kohlsmith wrote: On Monday 17 April 2006 07:44, Rich Adamson wrote: I don't believe you will ever get POTS - FXO-TDM400P-to-anything to work properly due to TDM card limitations. So, move all of those to the bottom of your list. I *had* this working. POTS - TDM400 TDM400 -

Re: Faxing and PCI (was Re: [Asterisk-Users] Digium cards, so disappointing !)

2006-04-17 Thread Rich Adamson
Remco Barende wrote: So, to document this, the likelihood of a fax working goes in this order best to worse: 1. POTS - fax 2. POTS - FXO-TDM400P-FXS - fax 3. T1 - TE410P - channel bank - fax 4. T1 - TE110P - PCI - TE110P - channel bank - fax 5. T1 - TE110P - PCI -

Re: Faxing and PCI (was Re: [Asterisk-Users] Digium cards, so disappointing !)

2006-04-17 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith
On Monday 17 April 2006 07:44, Rich Adamson wrote: I don't believe you will ever get POTS - FXO-TDM400P-to-anything to work properly due to TDM card limitations. So, move all of those to the bottom of your list. I *had* this working. POTS - TDM400 TDM400 - Real_honest_fax_machine As I'd

Re: Faxing and PCI (was Re: [Asterisk-Users] Digium cards, so disappointing !)

2006-04-17 Thread Lee Howard
Rich Adamson wrote: I don't believe you will ever get POTS - FXO-TDM400P-to-anything to work properly due to TDM card limitations. So, move all of those to the bottom of your list. If you pay close attention to those postings from the last two years in which users say fax works, the

Re: Faxing and PCI (was Re: [Asterisk-Users] Digium cards, so disappointing !)

2006-04-17 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith
On Monday 17 April 2006 08:21, Lee Howard wrote: I and other iaxmodem users can say fax works with analog PSTN connections. In my case, as well as those others of which I am aware, an X100P (clone, er winmodem) is being used. Interesting. Do you have more information about your setup

Re: Faxing and PCI (was Re: [Asterisk-Users] Digium cards, so disappointing !)

2006-04-17 Thread Nicholas Kathmann
Lee Howard wrote: Rich Adamson wrote: I don't believe you will ever get POTS - FXO-TDM400P-to-anything to work properly due to TDM card limitations. So, move all of those to the bottom of your list. If you pay close attention to those postings from the last two years in which users say fax

Re: Faxing and PCI (was Re: [Asterisk-Users] Digium cards, so disappointing !)

2006-04-17 Thread Lee Howard
Andrew Kohlsmith wrote: On Monday 17 April 2006 08:21, Lee Howard wrote: I and other iaxmodem users can say fax works with analog PSTN connections. In my case, as well as those others of which I am aware, an X100P (clone, er winmodem) is being used. Interesting. Do you have more

Re: Faxing and PCI (was Re: [Asterisk-Users] Digium cards, so disappointing !)

2006-04-15 Thread Steve Underwood
Kevin P. Fleming wrote: Jeff Gustafson wrote: Is there any reason an easier implementation of the same, basic, idea could be created for the Asterisk generation? According to a quick search of H.100 it's just a TDM bus. It handles 2,048 full duplex calls. Would a lightweight

Re: Faxing and PCI (was Re: [Asterisk-Users] Digium cards, so disappointing !)

2006-04-15 Thread Remco Barende
On Fri, 14 Apr 2006, Kevin P. Fleming wrote: What about a new line of Digium cards that have bridge cables that run between the various cards and bypass the PCI bus? Since one of the best aspects of using Asterisk is standards. This bridge cable should be standardized and published so

Re: Faxing and PCI (was Re: [Asterisk-Users] Digium cards, so disappointing !)

2006-04-15 Thread Remco Barende
So, to document this, the likelihood of a fax working goes in this order best to worse: 1. POTS - fax 2. POTS - FXO-TDM400P-FXS - fax 3. T1 - TE410P - channel bank - fax 4. T1 - TE110P - PCI - TE110P - channel bank - fax 5. T1 - TE110P - PCI -

Faxing and PCI (was Re: [Asterisk-Users] Digium cards, so disappointing !)

2006-04-14 Thread Jeff Gustafson
On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 13:49 -0300, Joshua Colp wrote: Some people have problems, some people don't. There is no way you can be prepared for every situation out there. We try our best. I was looking at using a Dell server for running Asterisk and noticed that Dell has started using

Re: Faxing and PCI (was Re: [Asterisk-Users] Digium cards, so disappointing !)

2006-04-14 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Jeff Gustafson wrote: I was looking at using a Dell server for running Asterisk and noticed that Dell has started using PCI-X on a lot of their new systems. Does this newer bus standard help the situation with faxing? No. PCI-X is just a wider/higher-speed version of PCI, not a new

Re: Faxing and PCI (was Re: [Asterisk-Users] Digium cards, so disappointing !)

2006-04-14 Thread Aaron Daniel
Well, the TE410P and TE411P work in the PCI-X slots since it's backwards compatible. So I guess in effect, the Digium's cards already do support it :) Aaron On Fri, 14 Apr 2006, Jeff Gustafson wrote: On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 13:49 -0300, Joshua Colp wrote: Some people have problems, some

Re: Faxing and PCI (was Re: [Asterisk-Users] Digium cards, so disappointing !)

2006-04-14 Thread Jeff Gustafson
On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 15:10 -0500, Aaron Daniel wrote: Well, the TE410P and TE411P work in the PCI-X slots since it's backwards compatible. So I guess in effect, the Digium's cards already do support it :) My fault. I meant to say PCI-e, which is a newer bus that Dell is shipping

Re: Faxing and PCI (was Re: [Asterisk-Users] Digium cards, so disappointing !)

2006-04-14 Thread Jeff Gustafson
On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 15:10 -0500, Kevin P. Fleming wrote: Jeff Gustafson wrote: I was looking at using a Dell server for running Asterisk and noticed that Dell has started using PCI-X on a lot of their new systems. Does this newer bus standard help the situation with faxing?

Re: Faxing and PCI (was Re: [Asterisk-Users] Digium cards, so disappointing !)

2006-04-14 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Jeff Gustafson wrote: My fault. I meant to say PCI-e, which is a newer bus that Dell is shipping on their server class machines. Right. That is not supported by any Digium products yet, but it still won't help the FAXing issue, since the issue is _not_ PCI bus bandwidth. In fact, the

Re: Faxing and PCI (was Re: [Asterisk-Users] Digium cards, so disappointing !)

2006-04-14 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Jeff Gustafson wrote: Is there any reason an easier implementation of the same, basic, idea could be created for the Asterisk generation? According to a quick search of H.100 it's just a TDM bus. It handles 2,048 full duplex calls. Would a lightweight version that only supports 512

Re: Faxing and PCI (was Re: [Asterisk-Users] Digium cards, so disappointing !)

2006-04-14 Thread Jeff Gustafson
On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 15:35 -0500, Kevin P. Fleming wrote: Jeff Gustafson wrote: My fault. I meant to say PCI-e, which is a newer bus that Dell is shipping on their server class machines. Right. That is not supported by any Digium products yet, but it still won't help the FAXing