mgetty.greenie.de: ELINK 343 - it does have fax!

[Ignatios Souvatzis]

Hmmm... was ist hier die Gruppensprache? Aber das beschriebene
Dokument ist auf Englisch, also...

Hello,

I've stumbled over

http://mgetty.greenie.net/doc/Elink_002dISDN.html#Elink_002dISDN

today, and can enhance this, for what it's still worth...

TL;DR: ELINK 343 does G3 FAX up to 14400 bps encoded
on A-law. (I don't know whether it does G4.)

Long story:

I don't know the mentioned models - ELINK 293, 393 and 310 - but
I own an ELINK 343, and had used it reliably for some data and
fax connections "back then". I had hoped to be able to use it
for 64kbit/s data, occasionally, on my low-power ARM machine,
without running the big deskside all the time.

However, I had to switch back to some analog faxmodem with 28800 or
33600 bps data and 14400 bps fax capability, as one particular (and
quite frequent) peer had their fax modem apparently connected to
a port of their ISDN adapter that was configured as 3 KHZ Voice,
rather than 3 KHz universal audio or FAX. So, while my analog modem
connected to a 3 kHz universal audio would connect and allow
connections, the ELINK would refuse to connect to or from a peer
who claims to not have FAX capabilities as a pure VOICE line does...

Ah, the niceties of having connection types, selecting endpoints
based on them, --- and failing when the endpoints are misconfigured!

(Btw, of course I talked to my peer about this, and the problem is
that their ISDN adapter was configured using the, in earlier times
cheap and thus omnipresent, french BTX-equivalent terminal - only
they lost that, so couldn't reconfigure it anymore.)

Regards,
-is

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