VoIP Faxing - busy signals
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@Dashrender said in VoIP Faxing - busy signals:
What I'm trying to determine is, what's the difference between his POC and the actual in use machine?
I would assume (ops I'm in trouble for that
) that the exact same thing would happen.reading the OP:
@fuznutz04 said in VoIP Faxing - busy signals:
If the "line" is busy (meaning the ATA device/fax machine is currently receiving another fax) when another fax comes in, I get an alert from my provider telling me the line is busy and the call failed. Any good ways to get around this?
Why is your provider telling you where there is a busy? I've never heard of a provider doing that before. I mean sure, it could be a service, and I suppose it's useful so you can show the client how many busy signals you've handed out. If you can show time and incoming numbers you can filter to show different attempts, not simple retries (with some room for error of course).
It's the default setting for Vitelity. Any time a call fails to any DID, I can get notified about it. Useful for troubleshooting, but can be a bit much when things like this come up.
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@fuznutz04 said in VoIP Faxing - busy signals:
@Dashrender said in VoIP Faxing - busy signals:
What I'm trying to determine is, what's the difference between his POC and the actual in use machine?
I would assume (ops I'm in trouble for that
) that the exact same thing would happen.reading the OP:
@fuznutz04 said in VoIP Faxing - busy signals:
If the "line" is busy (meaning the ATA device/fax machine is currently receiving another fax) when another fax comes in, I get an alert from my provider telling me the line is busy and the call failed. Any good ways to get around this?
Why is your provider telling you where there is a busy? I've never heard of a provider doing that before. I mean sure, it could be a service, and I suppose it's useful so you can show the client how many busy signals you've handed out. If you can show time and incoming numbers you can filter to show different attempts, not simple retries (with some room for error of course).
It's the default setting for Vitelity. Any time a call fails to any DID, I can get notified about it. Useful for troubleshooting, but can be a bit much when things like this come up.
A busy signal should not be considered a failed call. I do not use Vitelity (any more), so I am not familiar with their setup.
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I agree. When I call it via phone, it says busy and i hear the busy tone. I can see the device connected to the PBX, and it is registered. It's been "Busy" for the last hour, so something is up. I might have to ask them to power cycle it and them guide them towards email.
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@fuznutz04 said in VoIP Faxing - busy signals:
I agree. When I call it via phone, it says busy and i hear the busy tone. I can see the device connected to the PBX, and it is registered. It's been "Busy" for the last hour, so something is up. I might have to ask them to power cycle it and them guide them towards email.
If your PBX is saying Busy, then you have something configured wrong. a normal busy response is simply a busy tone. The sending fax expects that or an answer tone. Hearing anything else is going to cause problems.
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@fuznutz04 said in VoIP Faxing - busy signals:
I agree. When I call it via phone, it says busy and i hear the busy tone. I can see the device connected to the PBX, and it is registered. It's been "Busy" for the last hour, so something is up. I might have to ask them to power cycle it and them guide them towards email.
Only an hour? That's pretty common around here. Either sending or receiving 50+ page faxes seems to happen weekly. My non scientific tests have shown that a fax takes on average 1 min per page from our machines.
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@fuznutz04 said in VoIP Faxing - busy signals:
I agree. When I call it via phone, it says busy and i hear the busy tone.
Do you actually hear a voice say "busy" or something like "this line is busy" before going to a Busy Signal? or are you indicating that you can see the line is busy in the PBX, and you hear the busy tone on the line when you call?
We're still trying to figure out why your VOIP provider is sending you a message about the line - can you give any more details. Maybe you can post a sanitized version of the email.
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Maybe that was confusing. I'm calling into the fax number via my phone. On my LCD screen, it says busy. There is sometimes 1 ring, and then the busy tone. The PBX is not actually saying "busy" to me.
I've instructed the client's IT guy to power cycle the device and he is also checking to see if there are any objection to incoming faxes going to email.
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@JaredBusch said in VoIP Faxing - busy signals:
@fuznutz04 said in VoIP Faxing - busy signals:
@JaredBusch said in VoIP Faxing - busy signals:
@fuznutz04 said in VoIP Faxing - busy signals:
For those of you using FreePBX or similar, how do you setup your ATA devices to receive incoming faxes so that there is never a busy signal on the line?
I have a client who wants to keep their fax machine because they literally want to send faxes from the fax machine. So, I have an ATA device on the fax machine that converts to SIP for me. Outgoing faxing works perfect, and incoming faxing works, as long as the line is not busy. If the "line" is busy (meaning the ATA device/fax machine is currently receiving another fax) when another fax comes in, I get an alert from my provider telling me the line is busy and the call failed. Any good ways to get around this?
Don't send inbound faxes to the machine. Send them to Email.
I'd really like to, but they currently want them at the fax machine. If there isn't any other way, then I will push them to go to email.
Then your PBX should be returning a busy signal to the inbound call not accepting it. If that happens, then the sending fax machine (usually) attempts to resend.
This is no different than a basic POTS fax functionality. Why are you expecting different behavior?
It's been happening for more than a day. (the busy signal) so it raised some red flags that something might not be working properly. I cant see that the fax machine would be busy for that long. It's acting as expected, but since it's been happening for so long, it seems very odd.
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Your VOIP to POTS convertor might be bad.
Are out going faxes working correctly?
If you hook a princess phone to the convertor, can you call it?
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@Dashrender said in VoIP Faxing - busy signals:
Your VOIP to POTS convertor might be bad.
Are out going faxes working correctly?
If you hook a princess phone to the convertor, can you call it?
You mean his POTS might be the pits?
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I've waited years to say that.
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@Dashrender I'll have to go on site this week and check it out.
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@scottalanmiller said in VoIP Faxing - busy signals:
@Dashrender said in VoIP Faxing - busy signals:
Your VOIP to POTS convertor might be bad.
Are out going faxes working correctly?
If you hook a princess phone to the convertor, can you call it?
You mean his POTS might be the pits?
Excellent.
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Follow up to this... They agreed to go with email to fax. Problem solved.
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@fuznutz04 said in VoIP Faxing - busy signals:
Follow up to this... They agreed to go with email to fax. Problem solved.
Sweet, well that worked out.
