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FAX Phone Number
I do not have a FAX Phone Number. I want to use my modem to send/receive fax.
The setup asked for a fax number. What do I do? Thanks, Joe |
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Phone numbers are assigned by your phone company. Your fax number is
whatever number your phone company assigned to the line you plug into your modem. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Joe Jet" Joe wrote in message ... I do not have a FAX Phone Number. I want to use my modem to send/receive fax. The setup asked for a fax number. What do I do? Thanks, Joe |
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"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: Phone numbers are assigned by your phone company. Your fax number is whatever number your phone company assigned to the line you plug into your modem. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Joe Jet" Joe wrote in message ... I do not have a FAX Phone Number. I want to use my modem to send/receive fax. The setup asked for a fax number. What do I do? Thanks, Joe What if I am use a cable connection for online and not a telephone line? How do I get a fax number? I am using Windows XP Fax. |
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jshields wrote:
"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: Phone numbers are assigned by your phone company. Your fax number is whatever number your phone company assigned to the line you plug into your modem. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Joe Jet" Joe wrote in message ... I do not have a FAX Phone Number. I want to use my modem to send/receive fax. The setup asked for a fax number. What do I do? Thanks, Joe What if I am use a cable connection for online and not a telephone line? How do I get a fax number? I am using Windows XP Fax. You don't. You can't use a fax modem with a cable Internet connection. Connect the fax modem to your telephone line. -- Lem -- MS-MVP Apollo 11 - 40 years ago this month: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ap...0th/index.html |
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Lem
It does depend on the modem and the line. I could connect my 56k fax modem to my telephone line and it would work. My telephone line is used for my broadband connection and for telephone calls. I have actually chosen to have a dedicated fax line because handling incoming phone calls and faxes does not work well. together. If you are just sending faxes there is no problem. The problem is knowing whether an incoming call is a call or a fax. -- Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lem wrote: jshields wrote: "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: Phone numbers are assigned by your phone company. Your fax number is whatever number your phone company assigned to the line you plug into your modem. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Joe Jet" Joe wrote in message ... I do not have a FAX Phone Number. I want to use my modem to send/receive fax. The setup asked for a fax number. What do I do? Thanks, Joe What if I am use a cable connection for online and not a telephone line? How do I get a fax number? I am using Windows XP Fax. You don't. You can't use a fax modem with a cable Internet connection. Connect the fax modem to your telephone line. |
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Gerry wrote:
Lem It does depend on the modem and the line. I could connect my 56k fax modem to my telephone line and it would work. My telephone line is used for my broadband connection and for telephone calls. I have actually chosen to have a dedicated fax line because handling incoming phone calls and faxes does not work well. together. If you are just sending faxes there is no problem. The problem is knowing whether an incoming call is a call or a fax. The key difference between your situation and that of the OP is that you are using a telephone line, which suggests that your broadband Internet connection is DSL, while the OP apparently has cable Internet service. DSL can indeed share an analog line (and thus a fax signal) with a telephone signal (as long as you use the proper filters). A cable Internet connection can not. One *possible* exception to the above is the use of Voice over IP (VoIP). That is, there are several vendors that sell devices that permit regular analog telephones to be connected to the Internet. Examples are Vonage and MagicJack. Although VoIP works well, faxing over a broadband Internet connection (FoIP), even with a dedicated fax machine, is a different story. And Windows Fax Services is not nearly as robust as a dedicated fax machine. One can *perhaps* make Windows Fax work with a Vonage or MagicJack connection, but there's no guarantee of success and one would have to do some research to find out the required settings. http://www.foip.org/ If you want to share a telephone line between your fax modem and your regular telephone, you need to buy a fax switch. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...f&o q=&aqi=g8 Personally, I use your solution: a dedicated fax line and a separate telephone line. Over time, however, the cost of this arrangement will exceed the cost of a fax switch. -- Lem -- MS-MVP Apollo 11 - 40 years ago this month: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ap...0th/index.html |
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Lem
This thread appeared here out of nowhere. You obviously have access to earlier posts I could not locate. I know about the limitations of Microsoft Fax. I use Winfax Pro. -- Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lem wrote: Gerry wrote: Lem It does depend on the modem and the line. I could connect my 56k fax modem to my telephone line and it would work. My telephone line is used for my broadband connection and for telephone calls. I have actually chosen to have a dedicated fax line because handling incoming phone calls and faxes does not work well. together. If you are just sending faxes there is no problem. The problem is knowing whether an incoming call is a call or a fax. The key difference between your situation and that of the OP is that you are using a telephone line, which suggests that your broadband Internet connection is DSL, while the OP apparently has cable Internet service. DSL can indeed share an analog line (and thus a fax signal) with a telephone signal (as long as you use the proper filters). A cable Internet connection can not. One *possible* exception to the above is the use of Voice over IP (VoIP). That is, there are several vendors that sell devices that permit regular analog telephones to be connected to the Internet. Examples are Vonage and MagicJack. Although VoIP works well, faxing over a broadband Internet connection (FoIP), even with a dedicated fax machine, is a different story. And Windows Fax Services is not nearly as robust as a dedicated fax machine. One can *perhaps* make Windows Fax work with a Vonage or MagicJack connection, but there's no guarantee of success and one would have to do some research to find out the required settings. http://www.foip.org/ If you want to share a telephone line between your fax modem and your regular telephone, you need to buy a fax switch. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...f&o q=&aqi=g8 Personally, I use your solution: a dedicated fax line and a separate telephone line. Over time, however, the cost of this arrangement will exceed the cost of a fax switch. |
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