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| Sending Faxes without a land line in late 2018??............. |
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| Smokey:
I just ran into a silly government form that can only be submitted by fax. Now I understand my problem of needing to send one single fax is easily solved by any number of methods including online services or going to a physical mailbox store and having them send it for a fee.... but.. .. I'm a nerd that needs to find the most difficult and convoluted yet technically possible solution, so I started thinking about what that may look like. I did a quick forum search, and this was all I came up with: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/why-wont-fax_s-just-die-already/ What I have available is a cell phone, a PC and internet connection (and google voice), and I actually also have a multifunction printer with fax machine (but no land line). I've read that due to the modern compression used in digital voice calls that old school data connections no longer work. But I've also found some places that claim you can sustain a lowish datarate connection through google voice. Some interesting resources are: https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/21459/send-receive-faxes-through-google-voice-without-using-a-fax-machine I like the idea of setting up a sip to land line box like this and connecting it to the multi-function, but that means I would need to buy hardware. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0045RMEPI/ It strikes me that an android app should exist that would just generate the tones for a fax and dump that over whatever the voice connection happens to be, but I couldn't find anything like that. Thoughts? |
| kripton2035:
eFax.com 30 days free trial service ? |
| darrellg:
https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-online-fax-services/ https://faxzero.com/ It's not worth the hassle of trying to do it the other way when it's so simple to just use a free fax service. |
| Halcyon:
I work for an organisation that is still a heavy user of fax (Government). Anything unclass. goes over fax or email. However almost the entire network is based on Cisco VoIP. I'm not sure what Cisco do different to carrier-grade gear, but fax still seems to work quite well at a minimum of 14.4kbit/sec and up to 33.6kbit/sec for Super-G3 devices (which are most of them on the network). |
| Smokey:
Just got back from the mailbox store. $5usd for a 4 page fax. Silly, but I did it anyway because I was there and hopefully it will be another 10 years before I need to do that again. If I had to do this more often then that would not be sustainable. I checked out the free link and it wouldn't have worked due to the 3 page limit. It still strikes me that there is a simple technical solution for which we already have all the pieces but no one has put them together yet. |
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