using windows fax with broardband

[Guest]

Is it possible to use windows fax with broardband? If so how do you set it up?

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Many users don't realize that faxing is a function that can only use analog
phone lines and analog fax modems. Accordingly, no fax software will
function with cable modems or DSL lines. With some DSL connections you can
obtain a DSL line filter suitable for connecting a standard analog voice
line to the DSL line and can then connect an analog fax modem to that line.

If you have no analog modem or phone line, you will need to use a fee based
Internet Fax Service. Several are listed here: http://www.savetz.com/fax/

 

[Guest]

Russ....

Thank you for this info. Windows should have no problems handling a DSL line
using a USB cable for connection and a regular phone line connected to a com
port for the fax, right?

John

Many users don't realize that faxing is a function that can only use analog
phone lines and analog fax modems. Accordingly, no fax software will
function with cable modems or DSL lines. With some DSL connections you can
obtain a DSL line filter suitable for connecting a standard analog voice
line to the DSL line and can then connect an analog fax modem to that line.

If you have no analog modem or phone line, you will need to use a fee based
Internet Fax Service. Several are listed here: http://www.savetz.com/fax/
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

Is it possible to use windows fax with broardband? If so how do you set it
up?

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

As long as you have an analog fax modem on the Windows XP HCL list attached
to an analog phone line, you should be good to go.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

Russ....

Thank you for this info. Windows should have no problems handling a DSL
line
using a USB cable for connection and a regular phone line connected to a
com
port for the fax, right?

John

Many users don't realize that faxing is a function that can only use
analog
phone lines and analog fax modems. Accordingly, no fax software will
function with cable modems or DSL lines. With some DSL connections you
can
obtain a DSL line filter suitable for connecting a standard analog voice
line to the DSL line and can then connect an analog fax modem to that
line.

If you have no analog modem or phone line, you will need to use a fee
based
Internet Fax Service. Several are listed here: http://www.savetz.com/fax/
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

Is it possible to use windows fax with broardband? If so how do you set
it
up?

 

[Guest]

Many users don't realize that faxing is a function that can only use analog
phone lines and analog fax modems. Accordingly, no fax software will
function with cable modems or DSL lines. With some DSL connections you can
obtain a DSL line filter suitable for connecting a standard analog voice
line to the DSL line and can then connect an analog fax modem to that line.

If you have no analog modem or phone line, you will need to use a fee based
Internet Fax Service. Several are listed here: http://www.savetz.com/fax/
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

Is it possible to use windows fax with broardband? If so how do you set it
up?

I also wish to use XP FAX while using my ADSL connection for email/browsing. However, I do have an Intel 537 modem installed. Backing up a bit:

My original setup included a FAX machine working through a "splitter." One
side went to the ADSL modem for Internet connection.

The other side went to the FAX machine, then to my phone/answering machine.

Everything worked fine until the FAX machine decided to quit. I pulled the
FAX machine and the wires connecting it through the Intel modem. The modem
remains inplace, but from the splitter I now go direct to the phone/answering
machine.

From the original XP OS disk I installed the FAX utility. It was setup
according to instructions received from the Microsoft Home Page.

When a FAX send is tried, the window displaying progress appears but I am
told the "receiving party" does not answer. I have had friends send FAX
messages to me and my FAX utility responds, but a window appears telling me
receipt failed.

Is it possible there is some "handshake" or other "protocol" between the
U.S. Microsoft FAX utility and the Japanese telephone system that is causing
this problem? Putting it another way, what can I do to make my XP FAX work?

Any help will be appreciated - - - -

 

[Hal Hostetler [MVP P/I]]

That "splitter" is probably a DSL line filter. Any analog device
(telephone, modem, Fax machine, etc.) must have a line filter between it and
the DSL line. In your original setup, it appears you had a line filter and
looped the phone line from it through the Fax machine and into the
phone/answering machine. To make the Fax modem work, the phone line from
the line filter should now loop through it and then go to the
phone/answering machine. I'm not sure, from your description, that you have
it connected this way.

Hal
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Many users don't realize that faxing is a function that can only use analog
phone lines and analog fax modems. Accordingly, no fax software will
function with cable modems or DSL lines. With some DSL connections you can
obtain a DSL line filter suitable for connecting a standard analog voice
line to the DSL line and can then connect an analog fax modem to that line.

If you have no analog modem or phone line, you will need to use a fee based
Internet Fax Service. Several are listed here: http://www.savetz.com/fax/
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

Is it possible to use windows fax with broardband? If so how do you set it
up?

I also wish to use XP FAX while using my ADSL connection for

email/browsing. However, I do have an Intel 537 modem installed. Backing up
a bit:

 

[Guest]

Is it possible to use windows fax with broardband? If so how do you set it up?

Russ - Thank you for your reply. Larry in Tokyo -