Fax Modems?

[geoffrey mendelson]

On Mar 9, 2009, at 12:49 PM, Amos Shapira wrote:


> I might be a bit hijacking the thread but since I think Geoffrey uses
> VoIP this might be relevant still - does anyone here have a working
> solution for faxing over non-PSTN lines? Is Fax<->Email gateway the
> only way?

I tried to do it and never had any luck. I have a cable modem from HOT  
and according
to all the people I spoke to, including HOT technical support, the  
timing is messed
up and it won't work.

Some people had good luck using aDSL lines and VoIP, but I was never  
able to get
enough details for that information to be of any use.

When I asked on the Hylafax support list I was told it did not work at  
all.

Vonage in the US, provides lines provisioned for FAX, and if you just  
have a voice line,
you can dial *99 as a prefix and get a FAX connection. It did not work  
from here when I
had a Vonage line.

I've been bugging Sammy Ominsky to do something with OlehPhone. When I  
saw him
last week he said he had, but it did not work well enough to sell it.


> I'd like to take advantage of my All-in-one HP Photosmart printer.
> Right now this is the last reason I keep (and pay for) the PSTN line
> at home in parallel to a VoIP line.


Me too. In case anyone needs to know, it works fine on a HOT voice  
line, but unlike the
other alternative voice lines sold here, it is NOT VoIP.

I happen to have the one HP unit that can not be used as a FAX modem,  
which is why I
need another FAX modem.

Geoff.

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