[Freeswitch-users] Is FAXing reliable on FreeSwitch w/ T.38

[bruce at sqls.net]

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From: bruce at sqls.net
To: "FreeSWITCH Users Help" <freeswitch-users at lists.freeswitch.org>
Sent: 5/1/2014 10:01:07 PM
Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] Is FAXing reliable on FreeSwitch w/ T.38

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>From: "Steve Underwood" <steveu at coppice.org>
>To: "FreeSWITCH Users Help" <freeswitch-users at lists.freeswitch.org>
>Sent: 5/1/2014 9:46:44 PM
>Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] Is FAXing reliable on FreeSwitch w/ 
>T.38
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>>85% success rate on the first try is appalling. You should be getting
>>well below 1% failures on any half decent setup.
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>>Regards,
>>Steve
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>Well, Steve. I would absolutely LOVE to learn what I'm doing wrong so I
>could get higher success rates. I'd buy beer, amazon gifts, send cash,
>and give praise if I could get some improvement!
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>For what it's worth, I'm running FreeSWITCH 1.2.23 on CentOS 6.5 on a
>old (maybe this is the issue? but I've read that even a modest system
>should be fine) Dell with Intel Pentium(R) D 2.8G cpu and 4GB of ram
>connected over a fiber internet connection to Flowroute. I've also
>tried Babytel since they're supposedly good for faxing but there 
>doesn't
>seem to be much of a difference.
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>I've tried a range of different settings for spandsp but generally my
>current defaults is to just enable t38, request t38, enable ecm, and
>enable v17. My LUA script allows me to adjust the settings per CID/DID
>and for some I've dropped v17.
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>I'm also logging details of faxes and keeping pcap records but I just
>don't know enough about reading the files in wireshark to understand
>where the issue is.
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>Also, the -vast- majority of my faxes are inbound, if that matters.


Nothing?  No suggestion or questions?  What about my setup is less then 
half decent?  I am seriously interested in knowing.  Be harsh, tell me 
it's all wrong if that's the case.  Maybe give me an example of what you 
consider a half decent setup to be?

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