steve@dmntor.uucp (Steve Pozgaj) (11/10/89)
We have one of these beasties, and it's performed superbly for over a year. Lately, odd things are happening. For example, on the monthly phone bill, I keep seeing repeated calls to the same number in 2-minute intervals, then a final longer charge. The FAX protocol is a CCITT T3C, and, according to the docco, it's supposed to retry on bad lines. My question is: does "retry" in the FAX sense mean "establish the connection; verify that the line is ok; if not, hang up, and try again". If so, then a noisy line would certainly mean a lot of repeat call attempts, which result in minimum-charge connections. (In my case, that meant about $15 last month!) Also, we had one instance of a $26 charge ... hmmm? You'd have to send a HECK of a lot of pages for that. (It was Toronto (416) to Virginia (703) at off-peak, so the long distance would have normally been around $10!) Is there something in the makeup of FAXes that could cause them to hang for a long time? (I suppose what I'm really asking is: Has my FAX had the biscuit?)