Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!bionet!hayes.ims.alaska.edu!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: skypod!scott@uunet.uu.net (Scott Campbell) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Unitel FacsRoute With Modems Message-ID: <14927@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 23 Nov 90 05:03:41 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: Skypod Communications Inc., Toronto, Ontario Lines: 33 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 843, Message 2 of 9 >In article <14718@accuvax.nwu.edu> gauthier@ug.cs.dal.ca (Paul >Gauthier) writes: >> A Canadian Company has recently begun to offer a special reduced >>rate to fax users. The user pays only a small monthly fee ($10, I >>think) and receives a little black box which attaches to their fax >>machine. .... >> Does anyone know if such services actually detect and interpret fax >>protocol to decide whether to axe the call? I spoke to someone at Unitel today in their service department. He told me that the little box detects whether it is a voice call or a modem call. If the black box decides you are talking on the data line, it just kicks you off. (I didn't think to ask him about the case where you have one fax operator doing a voice request because of a problem.) Apparently, modems up to 2400 baud will be counted as a fax by the box so you could use it as a data line. However, high speed modems, he said, caused problems; the box would sometimes confuse the data as voice and just boot you. The Courier HST was one in particular that had problems. He did not seem to know for sure about the Telebit PEP. If anyone has any experience at all in this, I would really like to hear it. Scott J.M. Campbell scott@skypod.uucp Skypod Communications Inc. (416) 961-3847 57 Charles St. West, #1310 Toronto, Ontario {problem|becker|torag|nyama}!skypod!scott