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Re: [opensuse] Re: Top 3 Applications You Wish Existed in Linux
- From: James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 19:00:05 -0400
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Fred A. Miller wrote:
through my work, I've done that sort of thing many times. One thing
they might be doing is voice compression, which will kill modems. On
the other hand, I have set up a customer with FAX on voice over IP,
connected via ADSL. In this instance, I configured the equipment to use
the full 64 Kb/s for the connection between sites and the FAX worked
fine. I could have configured the system to use significantly less
bandwidth, in which case FAX and modems would not work, but voice would.
FWIW, I've often found 1st level tech support to be not that
knowledgeable. They're OK on the basics, but not much beyond.
In my provider's FAQ, they say:
"Rogers Home Phone is designed to support most types of telephone
devices. Because of the wide variety of modems, we cannot guarantee full
compatibility with every type and there may be circumstances in which
failed calls will be experienced."
Bottom line, it should work, but no guarantees.
If you have a problem, it's with TW, not digital service.
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Per Jessen wrote:I suspect they weren't entirely honest with you. As I've mentioned,
[snip]
Fiber?? Where does fiber come into the picture? Nobody's mentioned that
sofar. I guess you assumed "digital" = "fiber", but that's definitely
not correct.
I have no idea what a telco might feed a fiber with - it'c clearly all
digital, but what kind of phones do you use with it and do you hook
them up? Around here we have only analog or ISDN phones, and both can
easily be used with the digital signal coming over the ISDN line.
Here in the US, we have a very large cable infrastructure, and
yes...it's pure digital. The modems that Time Warner, or whatever cable
company one has furnishes a "modem" that has a normal phone jack on it,
along with Ethernet and coaxial for TV. I spent a great deal of time
working my way through Time Warner tech. support levels trying to find a
way to get a USRobotics Sportster "real" modem to work before calling
Time Warner. I wish I'd checked with them before buying the modem. :(
Their answer was that the modem is an analog device and it can't work on
a digital service.
Fred
through my work, I've done that sort of thing many times. One thing
they might be doing is voice compression, which will kill modems. On
the other hand, I have set up a customer with FAX on voice over IP,
connected via ADSL. In this instance, I configured the equipment to use
the full 64 Kb/s for the connection between sites and the FAX worked
fine. I could have configured the system to use significantly less
bandwidth, in which case FAX and modems would not work, but voice would.
FWIW, I've often found 1st level tech support to be not that
knowledgeable. They're OK on the basics, but not much beyond.
In my provider's FAQ, they say:
"Rogers Home Phone is designed to support most types of telephone
devices. Because of the wide variety of modems, we cannot guarantee full
compatibility with every type and there may be circumstances in which
failed calls will be experienced."
Bottom line, it should work, but no guarantees.
If you have a problem, it's with TW, not digital service.
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