piral
@optonline.net | OT: What are ya'll using for faxing ?
Curious as I know alot of the voip crowd are remote home office workers. Using efax for years. Considering moving over to trustfax |
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themew
join:2005-05-04
Duluth, GA |
Inbound Fax > Efax
Outbound Fax > Standard Vonage line with fax machine set to Intl mode
Extremely reliable setup with no issues to speak of. |
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hok
join:2002-02-27
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Inbound fax via K7 Unified Messaging and POTS
Outbound fax via faxZERO for free and BroadVoice Internet Phone Service with about 50% successful rate. |
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DracoFelis
Premium
join:2003-06-15
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Inbound:
OneSuite Fax (for $1/month)
Outbound:
My old legacy (mid-1990's) fax machine, via the telco/POTS line that is still part of my DSL contract.
NOTE: If/when I get internet without a telco/POTS line, I'll have to figure out what I am going to do with outbound fax. the most likely possibility, is to find (and sign up for) some service that allows outbound fax either via email or a web site. |
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mazilo
From Mazilo
Premium
join:2002-05-30
Lilburn, GA | reply to piral
Inbound: e-mail with a PDF attachment.
Outbound: e-mail with a PDF attachment. |
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RockyBB
Premium
join:2005-01-31
Castle Rock, CO | reply to piral
inbound: ported my POTS number to Nuvio's version of efax.
outbound: plug into Vonage ATA when necessary. |
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espaeth
Misanthrope
Premium
join:2001-04-21
Minneapolis, MN | reply to piral
I've been using Maxemail for the last couple years. I don't fax all that frequently, so the $24/year Lite plan works out perfectly for me. |
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montano
join:2001-04-29
Central Cali | reply to piral
IN: K7
Out: FaxZero
Working good for my needs thus far. |
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christcorp
Premium
join:2001-05-21
Cheyenne, WY
 ·Bresnan Online
 ·VOIPo
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Outgoing: Brother Intellifax 775 on my VoipO line
Incoming: Brother Intellifax 775 on my VoipO line
I've found that if you have a low jitter and stable internet connection; (Bandwidth is not relevant); and you get a fax machine that is, or can be slowed now to about 9600 baud; then faxing traditionally is quite acceptable.
I don't fax a lot; possibly 5 a month. That's just for sending meter readings for sensors at work. But I have no problem using my setup. Then again, I have moved up to the 21st century and have realized that a fax machine is no longer a necessity 99% of the time, as long as you can scan, email, and have internet access. (Much of which can be automated). For those that are antiques and only have fax, and don't have email, I stop using their services and their business.
But being this thread did say; "OT"; can someone tell me where a fax is still a viable tool IF; I'll repeat IF; people have internet access, a scanner (Which most printers have), and email? Even with dialup internet, which anyone can get, and you obviously have a phone line if you have a fax, you can print/sign/scan/email/etc... anything a fax can do. And you have an electronic copy of it instead of ONLY a paper hard copy in a file cabinet some place. I'm mostly interested in what fax machines are normally used for. Anyway, inquiring minds want to know. later... mike... |
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stevech0
join:2006-09-17
San Diego, CA
·RoadRunner Cable
·VoicePulse
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My HP J4580 all in one does inbound and outbound FAXes with no issues, at full 33Kbps, merely using the Linksys PAP2 ATA analog mode. I was surprised. Config:
RoadRunner cable modem, 10mbps/1Mbps
Linksys WRH54G W-router, no QoS.
VoicePulse VoIP provider. |
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JohnnyBeGood
join:2008-04-18
Seattle, WA | reply to piral
Has anyone tried PIF fax feature »nerdvittles.com/index.php?p=237 ?
From reading the article, seems like its reliable. |
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kwest
join:2003-05-15
Dallas, GA
| I am testing this now, I have the inbound setup working and two providers, Gizmo and Future-9 cannot receive faxes at all dialing into Gizmo but faxing into F-9 works perfectly, will test outbound soon. |
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druber
join:2000-04-11
Marlborough, MA | reply to piral
Inbound I am not using. Outbound, a PAYG account with gafachi set up for t.38 with a GS286 using t.38 on an HP all in one. |
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TJ_in_IL
join:2006-06-10
Winthrop Harbor, IL
·Teliax VOIP
·ViaTalk
·Comcast
·Teleblend
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I am using teliax.com VoIP for inbound (fax2email), and also using the same for outbound via my fax machine (Lexmark x9350), on my SPA2102 adapter, without issue. I don't use it that often, so the PAYG option works for me, and I have a second line to use in case my other VoIP provider goes down.
TJ |
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JohnnyBeGood
join:2008-04-18
Seattle, WA
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said by kwest  :I am testing this now, I have the inbound setup working and two providers, Gizmo and Future-9 cannot receive faxes at all dialing into Gizmo but faxing into F-9 works perfectly, will test outbound soon. Thanks for sharing! |
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kieranmullen
Premium
join:2005-12-12
Portland, OR | reply to piral
Hard to beat efax.com free fax number for the 1 fax every 6 months... |
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dot_null
Premium
join:2004-06-28
Kennesaw, GA
·Callcentric
·Comcast
·VoiceStick
 ·AT&T Southeast
edit:
December 2nd, @02:15AM
| reply to piral
I use trustfax and am on an old $9.95/year grandfathered plan. Under this plan I get a toll free number (866) for incoming faxes and can upload or email in outgoing faxes in a number of formats. Any page sent or received is 10¢. I seldom use faxing so my bill for the whole year is somewhere around $12-15.
Faxing with VoIP has been hit and miss in my experience, so this paltry sum is well worth my sanity. 
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A little off center & loving it! »www.euphoricarythmia.com/ |
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kieranmullen
Premium
join:2005-12-12
Portland, OR
 ·Verizon FIOS
·Vonage
·magicjack.com
·ViaTalk
·VoicePulse
·BroadVoice
| How is $9.95 plus the cost of a fax a special deal? It seems like standard pricing to me. 2 minutes on Google and
»www.rapidfax.com/landings/homepa···ffer.htm
# $7.95/Month
# Packages from 150 included free pages a month and more
# Additional sending or receiving pages starting at only 0.09 a page
said by dot_null :I use trustfax and am on an old $9.95/year grandfathered plan. Under this plan I get a toll free number (866) for incoming faxes and can upload or email in outgoing faxes in a number of formats. Any page sent or received is 10¢. I seldom use faxing so my bill for the whole year is somewhere around $12-15. Faxing with VoIP has been hit and miss in my experience, so this paltry sum is well worth my sanity. |
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redshift
Premium
join:2004-03-23
Beverly Hills, CA | That's 9.95 per YEAR not month. Seems like a good deal to me. |
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celtic
join:2001-02-08
USA | reply to piral
I'm not into antiques so I scan or print to a PDF and email it. PDFCreator is my client of choice and it's free.
»sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/ |
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