Any suggestions for 56K fax modem?

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Gert Doering wrote:

> > The problem is that everyone seems to use the Lucent chipsets on their
> > 56K modems, and those are Class 1 faxmodems.  I am beginning to wonder
> > if ANY hardware manufacturer goes for quality instead of price??
> 
> Yep, ELSA, and to a certain extent, USR.  Most others suck.  Really.

Based on the April 1998 1.1.X doc, this thread, and what's available in
the
UK, I decided to go for an ELSA, given that they appear to have
reasonable
fax support and are talking to Gert. This is intended for outgoing and
incoming fax, to be integrated with intername email and a basic call
tracking system (possibly also voice - though that's an optional extra).

>From Action's catalogue (www.action.co.uk), I see the following
(ignoring
USB and ISDN kit)... I assume that "PC card" means PCMCIA, not PCI...

Action #                                                        GBP (ex
VAT)
-------- ------------------------------------------------------ ------
49-94-83 ELSA MicroLink 56K PC card - modem			113.00
49-53-58 ELSA MicroLink 56K PCI Fax Modem (Internal)		 37.59
49-17-76 ELSA MicroLink 56K Internet Fax modem (external)	 49.39
47-31-87 ELSA MicroLink Office 4-in-1 56K Fax modem (external)  132.50

At 37.59 (I checked, it's the same price in the dead tree editon of the
catalogue), does this *really* do everything right, or do ELSA also sell
winmodem/rockwell/lucent junk as well as the decent stuff? As far as I
can
see there are no other (UK licensed) products on the ELSA web page.

I'm planning on getting at least one Office 4-in-1 anyway: having the
ability to store incoming faxes with the system down seems very useful,
especially as Gert promises for the user interface in the standalone
mode.
If the PCI card above is less than GBP 40 - and is functionally the same
fax modem, I'll have one of those as well for a 2nd fax queue, testing,
etc, and they lot will still cost the same as 1 USR Courier. :-)

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