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Fax success rate!
Maybe your modem is timing out very fast? Try this - go to
Start-Control Panel-Phone and Modem options. Select the Modems tab and click on the Properties button. Click on the Advanced tab and then click on the "Change Default Preferences" button. Try changing the timeout in the "Cancel the call if not connected within _____ secs" field to a higher value. -----Original Message----- We have a requirement to send out a couple of hundred faxes a day to our clients, each with a different page of data. I set up the fax services under Win XP Pro, with Send enabled, Rcv disabled, and tested it - it works fine. I wrote a program that created 206 faxes with the individual faxes and sent them to the fax console - they all showed up in the outbox perfectly. Right away the fax monitor popped up and showed the modem dialing and sending faxes. The problem is that only 43 faxes (20%) were sent successfully even after 2 retries (29, 12, & 2 in each try taking 4 hours each). The majority of the unsuccessful attempts were "No Answer" although there were a few "Busy" status ones. Why is the success rate so small? Is there any setting (such as number of rings to wait before deciding No Answer) that can be checked on a send? The only settings I can find is number of retries and delay. An older DOS program being used for the same application to the same fax numbers was providing 80 to 90% success rate on a daily basis but we wish to retire the machine. I have tried this on 2 different computers with different fax modems with the same result. I ran another test of 7 faxes of which 2 went through successfully after 4 attempts with 5 No Answers. The 5 failed faxes, when printed and faxed manually through a fax machine to the same fax numbers all made it through on the first attempt. What gives? Is there something somewhere that I am missing? Ash . |
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