Re: Best fax modem settings to receive from multifunction devices?

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I am going to take a newer USR V.Everything (3453B) out there in the next
couple of days. The 3CP3453 already had the latest firmware. I tried the
Microsoft "Standard Modem" and "Standard 56000bps Modem" drivers, and the
modem would not even answer a call manually, much less on auto-answer!

I have had MultiTech modems in the past, but they had so much trouble
receiving from some USR Sportster modems and some multi-function fax
machines that I gave up and went with the 3Com Courier V.Everything per
Crina Li's and others' suggestions. Except for this one client trying to
receive from a Brother MFC 8300, they have worked well.

I was hoping that someone knew an init string that might help with receiving
from the Brother MFC device.

Gregg Hill



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The Fax service failed to receive a fax. From: . CallerId: . To: Smith
Plumbing. Pages: 0. Device Name: Courier V.Everything EXT PnP (V90-x2).

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http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.


I have tried Crina's other suggestions of setting modem and COM port
speed
to 9600 with compression off, and that did not help. I have tried various
COM port and modem speeds, to no avail.

Does anyone have a recommended COM port and modem speed that will work
the
best for receiving from these problem multifunction devices?

COM port speed won't change anything, it's an issue between the fax
modem and the fax machine, and COM has nothing to do with that.

Reset the modem to factory defaults - look up the ATZ command or
something like AT&F.

If this fails, get the latest firmware for the modem, and if that fails,
try another fax modem.

Get another external fax modem, one of these should be good enough, as I
use them with GFI and have no problems:

MultiTech (Rockwell/Conexant-based models)
* Model MT5600ZDX
* Model MT5600ZDXV (Rockwell chipset, supports DTMF)
* Model MT5600BA
* Model MT5634ZBA
* Model MT5634ZBAV
* Model MT5634ZBA V.92
* Model MT5634MSV
* Model MT3334ZDXV
* Model MT5634ZPX
* Model MT5634ZPX-PCI
* Model MT5656ZDX
* Model MT5656ZDXV
* Models MT1432BA/BL
* Models MT1932BA/BL/ZDX
* Models MT2834BA/BL/ZDX
* Models MT2834BR
* Models MT2834BLR
* Models MT3334HD8
* Models MT2834MR6
* Models ISI3334
* Models MT5634ZBA-USB-V92 (GFI FAXmaker version 12 build
20050524 and later)


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