| *99 tells the ATA that the call is a fax. Before Vonage officially supported faxing, users said that this help them achieve a higher rate of success. However, since Vonage now officially supports fax calls, some people wonder if you need to do this anymore. Fax calls work in the same notion that a modem call would need to complete, in this case, for the tivo to connect. My SA series one tivo does not need this code to connect. |
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| My Tivo will NOT connect if I use *99.
There is a good reason (unless I am going off in the wrong direction). *99 is specific to Fax Codec, Fax does not use V.34 etc. but different codec's with different frequencies... As such *99 makes the ATA listen specifically for frequencies fax machines / modems in fax mode use for transmission and allows the ATA to better translate those.
This will adversely affect all other frequencies, including the ones used by a Modem....
My Series 1 DirecTivo's have about 80% success rate calling through vonage - good enough for me...
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