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- From: wbe@bbn.com (Winston Edmond)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: How do existing FAX/data modems hand
- Date: 13 Dec 92 02:54:07
- Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc., Cambridge, MA
- Lines: 23
- Message-ID: <WBE.92Dec13025407@crystal.bbn.com>
- References: <4rjoTFWbv4@bi-l003.bi-link.owl.de>
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- In-reply-to: H.ZIERKE@BI-LINK.owl.de's message of 12 Dec 92 23:59:00 GMT
-
- Someone wrote:
- #Yes, but some users report that the ZyXELs also have the annoying
- #quality to 'recognize' incoming data calls from some types of modems as
- #fax calls.
-
- I replied:
- My impression is that this was a problem many software revisions ago, but
- that it has long since been fixed.
-
- H.ZIERKE@BI-LINK.owl.de (Hans-Joachim Zierke) replied:
- If a US Robotics Worldport 9600 (the - ... suboptimal version approved for
- Germany) calls a ZyXEL, it will reliably :-)
- CONNECT FAX.
-
- My reply:
- Yes, but what software version is the ZyXEL modem running? There was a
- problem a while back that has since been fixed. On the other hand, I just
- looked over the release notes for v5.04A again, and found the following item
- that suggests there may have been a problem with USR modems in particular
- that was only just fixed in the latest version:
-
- 7. Correct compatibility problem with USR modem/fax.
- -WBE
-