I bought the Zoom 3049 external serial faxmodem to connect to a Digi 4 port serial-to-USB adapter on our faxserver. I currently have 4 older Boca modems connected to it, but one of the modems is starting to get a little flaky. The Zoom 3049 seemed to have good reviews as a faxmodem, so I thought I'd buy one to test it out. The only problem that I have with the Zoom 3049 is the way the driver is installed. It will not recognize the serial ports on the USB adapter, and a manual installation is looking for an "inf" file (which the Zoom 3049 doesn't have). Older drivers have an "inf" file, but this one simply has an "exe" executable that contains "dll"s. The only thing that I could do was install it on the on-board serial port. Other than that, it's been pretty reliable.
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I bought this modem specifically for use with our faxserver. I only bought one initially for testing because many "fax modems" don't always reset correctly everytime. We've only had this for a few months, but it's done a great job. I'm getting ready to buy another one.
I made the mistake of buying four MultiTech MT5634ZBA-USB fax modems a while back, and frequently had to disconnect/reconnect them to force a reset.
I would recommend the external Zoom 3049 as a fax modem.
Kris
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