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setting up fax
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
Lem wrote: snip Yes (almost; see below to configure fax) ... but remember, you need to connect your fax modem to an analog phone line (regular, old-fashioned phone line). If you have DSL service, you can share the line with phone/fax and DSL by using appropriate filters. If you have cable internet service, you need to use a "real" phone line for the fax, not the cable connection. snip The bit about not being able to fax with a cable connection isn't necessarily true; If the user has cable telephone service (in addition to Internet service) it will probably work. It does for me. It's my understanding that faxing won't work with some cable phone services, but it works with my Time Warner connection. The key word in this comment is "necessarily." Maybe it will work and maybe it won't. Those with cable connections might be interested in reading the following: http://www.soft-switch.org/foip.html but the best advice, if you don't have a regular telephone line, is to ask your VoIP provider if faxing will work. See the following Google results for mo http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=...82d86320cf60e9 -- Lem Apollo 11 - 40 years ago: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ap...0th/index.html |
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setting up fax
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
Lem wrote: snip Yes (almost; see below to configure fax) ... but remember, you need to connect your fax modem to an analog phone line (regular, old-fashioned phone line). If you have DSL service, you can share the line with phone/fax and DSL by using appropriate filters. If you have cable internet service, you need to use a "real" phone line for the fax, not the cable connection. snip The bit about not being able to fax with a cable connection isn't necessarily true; If the user has cable telephone service (in addition to Internet service) it will probably work. It does for me. It's my understanding that faxing won't work with some cable phone services, but it works with my Time Warner connection. The key word in this comment is "necessarily." Maybe it will work and maybe it won't. Those with cable connections might be interested in reading the following: http://www.soft-switch.org/foip.html but the best advice, if you don't have a regular telephone line, is to ask your VoIP provider if faxing will work. See the following Google results for mo http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=...82d86320cf60e9 -- Lem Apollo 11 - 40 years ago: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ap...0th/index.html |
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setting up fax
Lem wrote:
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: Lem wrote: snip Yes (almost; see below to configure fax) ... but remember, you need to connect your fax modem to an analog phone line (regular, old-fashioned phone line). If you have DSL service, you can share the line with phone/fax and DSL by using appropriate filters. If you have cable internet service, you need to use a "real" phone line for the fax, not the cable connection. snip The bit about not being able to fax with a cable connection isn't necessarily true; If the user has cable telephone service (in addition to Internet service) it will probably work. It does for me. It's my understanding that faxing won't work with some cable phone services, but it works with my Time Warner connection. The key word in this comment is "necessarily." Maybe it will work and maybe it won't. Those with cable connections might be interested in reading the following: http://www.soft-switch.org/foip.html but the best advice, if you don't have a regular telephone line, is to ask your VoIP provider if faxing will work. See the following Google results for mo http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=...82d86320cf60e9 I concur that the key word here is "necessarily". Here are some similar articles regarding the challenges faced when carrying fax over IP: http://www.voipplanet.com/solutions/article.php/3810471 http://www.bustosfaxsettlement.com/index.htm http://www.hylafax.sourceforge.net/d...-over-voip.pdf -- Andrew Rinaldi Mainpine Developer Support USA +1 866 363 6680 | UK +44 1225 637 105 | www.mainpine.com |
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setting up fax
Lem wrote:
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: Lem wrote: snip Yes (almost; see below to configure fax) ... but remember, you need to connect your fax modem to an analog phone line (regular, old-fashioned phone line). If you have DSL service, you can share the line with phone/fax and DSL by using appropriate filters. If you have cable internet service, you need to use a "real" phone line for the fax, not the cable connection. snip The bit about not being able to fax with a cable connection isn't necessarily true; If the user has cable telephone service (in addition to Internet service) it will probably work. It does for me. It's my understanding that faxing won't work with some cable phone services, but it works with my Time Warner connection. The key word in this comment is "necessarily." Maybe it will work and maybe it won't. Those with cable connections might be interested in reading the following: http://www.soft-switch.org/foip.html but the best advice, if you don't have a regular telephone line, is to ask your VoIP provider if faxing will work. See the following Google results for mo http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=...82d86320cf60e9 I concur that the key word here is "necessarily". Here are some similar articles regarding the challenges faced when carrying fax over IP: http://www.voipplanet.com/solutions/article.php/3810471 http://www.bustosfaxsettlement.com/index.htm http://www.hylafax.sourceforge.net/d...-over-voip.pdf -- Andrew Rinaldi Mainpine Developer Support USA +1 866 363 6680 | UK +44 1225 637 105 | www.mainpine.com |
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setting up fax
Andrew Rinaldi wrote:
http://www.hylafax.sourceforge.net/d...-over-voip.pdf Should be: http://hylafax.sourceforge.net/docs/fax-over-voip.pdf -- Andrew Rinaldi Mainpine Developer Support USA +1 866 363 6680 | UK +44 1225 637 105 | www.mainpine.com |
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setting up fax
Andrew Rinaldi wrote:
http://www.hylafax.sourceforge.net/d...-over-voip.pdf Should be: http://hylafax.sourceforge.net/docs/fax-over-voip.pdf -- Andrew Rinaldi Mainpine Developer Support USA +1 866 363 6680 | UK +44 1225 637 105 | www.mainpine.com |
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