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Howell said:
So the lesson is, like the ladies Coug stores fat in his chest. :)

My BMI is near 30. BMI is not everything.
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My BMI has always been high - even when I was running 1/2 marathons according to my BMI I was obese.

However if one actually reads the history of the BMI and how it came about, it had *nothing* to do with medical health. It was a statisical calculation based on averages, which over 50% of the population do not fit into.

Any person with professional medical or sport medicine training that uses the BMI for anything, needs to be handled with caution.

All BMI does tell you, if you maintain a health height to waist ratio, is how far from an average you are. (In my peak fitness when in the Army, my BMI was 35+, but had a body fat % of under 4% - yet according to one doctor I saw, I was severely obese and needed to diet. WTF).
 
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I am too fat to contemplate, BMI just 30. I hear the fat bursts into flames in the crematorium, not that I would be "there" to see it.
 
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What happens if I log in two computers to SF with the same user? Is that allowed?
 
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Howell said:
So the lesson is, like the ladies Coug stores fat in his chest. :)

My BMI is near 30. BMI is not everything.
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Mine is also. Looking at me though, a lot of people take me for 170 instead of 190 to 195. Muscle weighs more than fat, and I have a lot of it in my legs from 33 years of riding. I fit in 34" pants just fine.
 
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ddrueding said:
Sprint Overdrive -> DD-WRT'ed router in bridge mode -> Vonage Adapter -> Fax Machine

All this just to get an old fax to work in the middle of nowhere.
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The above setup works if you have a 3G/4G signal, but it doesn't if you don't, so I just had an interesting conversation with the local cable company.

We have a job trailer out in the middle of a field. From the field I can see a telephone pole in a nearby housing development with cable on it. Starting with the regular customer service number, I tried to talk them into putting a box at the edge of my field and dropping a cable service into it. After about an hour on the phone with several levels of tech, I now have two service tickets outstanding and my fingers crossed. This was supposed to go live tomorrow.
 
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The Vonage adapter you have will also affect your success with faxing. If the adapter supports T.38 (A fax codec) then apparently Vonage have SIP gateways which support it (possibly only in one direction, worth giving them a call maybe). If you don't have a T.38 capable device then you'll probably be negotiating a G.711 connection (64Kbit PCMA/PCMU) and then sending the fax data in the audio stream, so if you have less than a 64Kbit connection it's not going to work.

As Howell suggests an online service is probably the best bet, if you're definitely stuck with the antique fax machine though I think T.38 is the next best option, preferably over TCP if you can configure the device for that (And Vonage support it).

Another possibility would be to play with the codec setting in the Vonage device, G.711 is 64Kbit so a fax sent over it will be reasonably fast but require at least 64Kbits, G.729 is 8Kbit so sending a fax over it would be like watching paint dry, but it might work when G.711 won't. (Or it might never work, it's not something I've actually tried)
 
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Unfortunately, I do need a real fax machine.

Sol, do you have any suggestions on a Vonage adapter that doesn't insist on being the gateway and supports T.38?
 
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BingBangBop said:
Do fax machines work over VOIP?
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From what I've been able to tell, kinda.

If the VOIP gateway, the service you are using, and the incoming and outgoing gateways of everyone involved support it, the T.38 protocol is designed to make it work.

Otherwise it goes out as audio like any other voice call and kinda works.
 
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According to a related FAQ on their site, Vonage says you can just plug a fax into the existing phone port - so you don't need a separate line. Presumably, their V-Portal adapter has T.38 support switched on by default - in VOIP routers like my Draytek it's an option in the configuration.

DD, I don't understand why you need to use bridge mode - can't you just hang the adapter off the router and choose DHCP?
 
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DD, I don't understand why you need to use bridge mode - can't you just hang the adapter off the router and choose DHCP?
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Yes, and in theory, it should work flawlessly. However, in practice, it complains about "no internet" 20% of the time. You can also only reach the configuration page if you are connected on the "inside" of the router and use DHCP to get an IP address.
 
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After competitively diving 3m as an under12 and cliff jumping 100' cliffs I wouldn't be worried. Assess the risk and manage it.
 
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Assess the risk and manage it.
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By wearing a crash helmet? Pretty sure they didn't understand the risks at all.

It's the careless way they increasingly acted that inspired my comment. Would you skylark around a 100ft dive? I was just waiting for two of them to try launching together. I couldn't believe it when they continued into the night - how do you find someone who doesn't surface in the dark?
 
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ddrueding said:
Yes, and in theory, it should work flawlessly. However, in practice, it complains about "no internet" 20% of the time. You can also only reach the configuration page if you are connected on the "inside" of the router and use DHCP to get an IP address.
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SIP is fun that way, the actual session protocol is just used to swap SDP media descriptions so both sides end up acting as a server and both need externally accessible ports. Sometimes the final acknowledgement message in the set up is also sent from a different source in which case you need 2 externally accessible ports at both ends, and if you only have one, everything works fine for 40 seconds and then the call just drops out.
 
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In my younger days I would have done it. Besides, it doesn't look any worse than a water ski jump if you don't land on your skis.
 
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Normally, it's either the PSU or the motherboard. I've seen dead Seagate drives to prevent computers from booting. It's almost never the CPU and while bad RAM causing bit errors is frequent, dead RAM preventing a system to boot is uncommon.
 
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