[Cialug] Courier V.everythying modem

[Don Ellis]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 9:50 PM, Zachary Kotlarek <zach at kotlarek.com> wrote:
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> On Feb 22, 2011, at 9:42 PM, Scott Prader wrote:
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>> Now why would you want to go and do a silly thing like that?  USR Courier modems are still supported by Linux and BSD. ;)
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> And I still use one.
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> Some of them support Class 2.0/2.1 faxing. I did not have very good look with Class 1 fax-modems + USB->serial conversion. I'm guessing it's because Class 2.x systems don't have any timing-sensitive host<->modem communications, but I didn't actually do much research to isolate the root cause once I found something that worked.
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> So that's one potential use, if you still use faxes.

However, if you're using VOIP for your land line, faxes don't work.
Need alternate fax methods, which don't use fax modems.

--Don Ellis