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Hi,

Mark E. Walter wrote:
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> 2. Zyxel is best supported and seems to work more "cleanly" 
>  than others. Others such as Rockwell based and US Robotics 
>  do work. Rockwell causes the most problems (I speak from 
>  experience as well). Of the US Robotics, the Courier models 
>  is supposed to be much better than the Sportsters (you 
>  get what you pay for). 

The Courier is good for reliable fax *sending* operation. It's ok for
occasional fax reception (but locks up sometimes during "mass reception"
on some unix systems, namely AIX (?!!!)). It can't do fax polling yet.
USR is actively working on improving the fax part of the Courier.

The Sportster is one of the most problematic fax modems around.

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>  Idiosyncrasies with respect to fax or voice operations is 
>  what makes things a "challenge." Apparently standards and 
>  quality in modems varies quite a bit. 

Quality of engineering seems to vary quite a bit - people just do not read
standards, or refuse to follow them. Or just plain ignore them (class 2
was a *draft*, all reasonable modems have a class 2.0 *standard* interface
now, except Rockwell *argh*)

gert

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