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| anonymous 2005-07-09, 2:45 am |
| will efax work with voip?
i.e. can someone send a fax to my voip fax line and then if I have my
voip line forwarded to my efax number will it work?
right now i use efax for incoming and outgoing faxes. my understanding
is that voip will work with traditional fax machines, but then i will
have paper faxes again instead of electronic faxes that i now get with
efax. i really dont want to go from paperless back to paper again just
so i can have voip.
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| Ivor Jones 2005-07-09, 7:45 am |
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"anonymous" <Ancg7z6d@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1120885958.768537.112300@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> will efax work with voip?
>
> i.e. can someone send a fax to my voip fax line and then if I have my
> voip line forwarded to my efax number will it work?
I don't understand, why would you want to forward your VoIP line to an
efax number..?
> right now i use efax for incoming and outgoing faxes. my understanding
> is that voip will work with traditional fax machines, but then i will
> have paper faxes again instead of electronic faxes that i now get with
> efax. i really dont want to go from paperless back to paper again just
> so i can have voip.
VoIP and fax can work, but it depends on the codec used. Some work better
than others. If I were you I'd forget about VoIP for fax use and just
continue to use your existing efax number. Use VoIP for phone calls.
Ivor
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| Miguel Cruz 2005-07-09, 5:45 pm |
| anonymous <Ancg7z6d@gmail.com> wrote:
> will efax work with voip?
>
> i.e. can someone send a fax to my voip fax line and then if I have my
> voip line forwarded to my efax number will it work?
>
> right now i use efax for incoming and outgoing faxes. my understanding
> is that voip will work with traditional fax machines, but then i will
> have paper faxes again instead of electronic faxes that i now get with
> efax. i really dont want to go from paperless back to paper again just
> so i can have voip.
So why not just give out your efax number?
But yes, you can forward your phone number to efax and it will quite
possibly work. It will be bypassing the equipment in your home entirely.
miguel
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| Kyler Laird 2005-07-09, 5:45 pm |
| "anonymous" <Ancg7z6d@gmail.com> writes:
>i.e. can someone send a fax to my voip fax line and then if I have my
>voip line forwarded to my efax number will it work?
I've had very limited success experimenting with that (using other
providers but essentially he same thing). It certainly should be
possible but it's a matter of getting a good codec (and doing
"reinvites", etc.).
I'm hoping to get one of my Asterisk boxes configured to handle
faxes sometday...
--kyler
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| anonymous 2005-07-09, 5:45 pm |
| >I don't understand, why would you want to forward your VoIP line to an
>efax number..?
>So why not just give out your efax number?
there are no efax numbers available in my area code (even with the paid
account), so my efax number is in NY while i am in CA. So i give
customers a verizon fax number in my area and then forward it to the
efax number. This way its a local call for them and i receive the
document in efax. I've been doing this for several years now.
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| Jeremy 2005-07-10, 5:45 pm |
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"Kyler Laird" <Kyler@news.Lairds.org> wrote in message
news:h565q2-n48.ln1@snout.lairds.org...
> "anonymous" <Ancg7z6d@gmail.com> writes:
>
>
> I've had very limited success experimenting with that (using other
> providers but essentially he same thing). It certainly should be
> possible but it's a matter of getting a good codec (and doing
> "reinvites", etc.).
>
> I'm hoping to get one of my Asterisk boxes configured to handle
> faxes sometday...
>
> --kyler
I have greatly improved fax speed by configuring my fax modem for Class 2
operation. Less "training" before the faxing begins. Class 1 seems to
always cut doen fax speed from 14,400 to 7200. Class 2 transmits at 14,400
about 70% of the time, at 12,200 20% of the time, and 9600 10% of the time.
If your fax modem is capable of Class 2 operation, definitely use it in that
mode. Otherwise, consider buying a new modem. They're dirt cheap these
days.
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| ukcats4218016@yahoo.com 2005-07-14, 5:45 pm |
| I used e-fax with my SunRocket service for awhile until I set it up so
that it would work with my all-in-one HP. e-fax does work pretty well
with most of these VoIP providers.
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| Henning Wangerin 2005-07-14, 5:45 pm |
| On Fri, 08 Jul 2005 22:12:38 -0700, anonymous wrote:
> will efax work with voip?
>
> i.e. can someone send a fax to my voip fax line and then if I have my voip
> line forwarded to my efax number will it work?
I depends.
I'm doing just that with great results, but if my SIP-provider would
forward the call via a low-bandwidth codec it wouldn't work.
/Henning
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