Re: Fax Service Multiple Modem support

Clif;883205 Wrote:
> Does Vista Business or Ultimate fax service support multiple modems? I
> understand the operating system will support multiple modems, what
> about the
> fax service itself?

I know this is a latecoming reply, but I am trying to slipstream
something into the general knowledgebase about Windows Fax Service. In
trying to solve my own problems with it, I found a lot of discussion, a
lot of misinformation and even more confusion.

The bottom line is that Windows Fax Service will indeed work with
multiple modems - but they CANNOT be WinModems. You can install two,
three, four modems, but if even one of them is an OS-controlled winmodem
you will get erratic operation with only one functioning modem at a
time.

I have discovered that it's very difficult to tell a winmodem from a
true controller-based modem like we used to have - the winmodem term is
no longer used and the package specs are quite vague. It's pretty
simple, though - a true controller-based modem will trumpet that feature
prominently, will specify operating systems other than late editions of
Windows (typically, Linux), and (unfortunately) will cost 2-3 times as
much as the bottom level of winmodems - right now, about $50-60 instead
of $15-25.

I have Win 2003 x64 Enterprise happily working away with two USR
internal Pro Modems, after a week of hair-tearing trying to get Win Fax
Service to work with more than one (win)modem... and finally figuring it
out. I believe that all late versions of Windows, XP Pro forward, will
also support multiple TRUE CONTROLLER BASED MODEMS under Windows Fax.


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