[Freeswitch-users] good Fax T.38 Provider

Brian West brian at freeswitch.org
Wed Mar 21 07:48:03 MSK 2012


Flowroute.com t38faxing.com

Both work great with t.38

Sent from my iPad

On Mar 20, 2012, at 11:46 PM, Mitch Capper <mitch.capper at gmail.com> wrote:

> I hear you, and I don't run a massive fax gateway or anything like
> that.  Doing somewhere around just under dozen faxes a day or so to
> generally a different fax numbers each day so its mainly just seeing a
> variety of remote fax machines and input.  Generally we try 3-4 times
> per fax, and fall back to a PSTN fax machine that always succeeds and
> just about on the first try every time.  With FS/spandsp we get "Timed
> out waiting for the first message" or "Invalid response after sending
> a page" or "The call dropped prematurely"  probably at least 15% of
> the time on the first try (t38 req on and ecm on).  With successive
> tries though (t38 req off and ecm off) we generally get it to go
> through.   We have also tried phaxio which I believe uses spandsp
> also.  Frequently on numbers that we have an issue with they will have
> an issue with also, however after a few tries (sometimes upwards of 5
> minutes later) they do seem to get them to go through.   Part of the
> reason I think multiple carriers may just help the situation (as I am
> not sure what they change other than that to get it to eventually
> work).  I have yet to find a number phaxio hasn't eventually succeed
> on however.
>
> Also obviously didn't mean to offend, the 95% was just to give people
> an idea that while it can be good it doesn't quite seem to be a
> replacement for a PSTN line yet.  I love FS / spandsp and it really is
> excellent.
>
> ~Mitch
>
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