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I want to set up a fax machine to my broadband line, fax works fine on my landline but on broadband line it won't send them. Fax is directly plugged into phone socket on hub, is there anything i'm doing wrong? It dials numbers, rings but will not send fax, phone calls are fine over BBline
 
Fax uses the same frequencies as voice, so it wont work over ADSL conventionally. You need to plug it into the voice socket at the filter. If using PC software you need to use a dial up modem. You can use dial up & ADSL at the same time so long as it is filtered correctly.

There are ways to use ADSL for faxes like fax to email/email to fax or other specialised pay for services.
 
Fax uses the same frequencies as voice, so it wont work over ADSL conventionally. You need to plug it into the voice socket at the filter. If using PC software you need to use a dial up modem. You can use dial up & ADSL at the same time so long as it is filtered correctly.

There are ways to use ADSL for faxes like fax to email/email to fax or other specialised pay for services.
thanks for reply but that made no sense to me at all, its prob a good answer but i'm just not technically advanced
 
If you mean use your second landline (broadband line) for fax you can't I'm afraid, the VOIP protocol won't send a fax signal afaik - although would love for someone to prove me wrong.
 
thanks for reply but that made no sense to me at all, its prob a good answer but i'm just not technically advanced
Basically you cant do what you want to do. Fax is old analogue technology. ADSL is new digital technology. The two are incompatible.

So you are left with 2 options:

1. If you have a physical fax machine plug it into the same place where you would normally plug your landline phone into. If you have fax software on your PC, you need to use an old fashioned 56K dial up modem (the ones where you hear it dialling up and making lots of beeping/screeching noises).

2. Use a service like http://www.efax.co.uk/
I cant vouch for efax...I'm just using it as an example of these types of services. There are many others like them on the web.
 
Basically you cant do what you want to do. Fax is old analogue technology. ADSL is new digital technology. The two are incompatible.

So you are left with 2 options:

1. If you have a physical fax machine plug it into the same place where you would normally plug your landline phone into. If you have fax software on your PC, you need to use an old fashioned 56K dial up modem (the ones where you hear it dialling up and making lots of beeping/screeching noises).

2. Use a service like http://www.efax.co.uk/
I cant vouch for efax...I'm just using it as an example of these types of services. There are many others like them on the web.
ok thanks for quick answers i'll use my landline as fax line and BBline as new telephone line
 
If it's a business from home kind of thing, then that is probably a good way around anyway, because then your personal telephone number will also be your fax number, and you can keep your existing PSTN system for your personal use, and your VOIP number can be your dedicated business number - if you have been allocated an "05" VOIP line, you can request for this to be changed to a normal landline number too - just not sure how?
 
P.S. there are network attached fax solutions, but they are generally used on larger networks, and use a dedicated PSTN line for fax transmit and receive - it's old technology but there's no chance of it going away anytime soon for business and legal purposes.
 
If you mean use your second landline (broadband line) for fax you can't I'm afraid, the VOIP protocol won't send a fax signal afaik - although would love for someone to prove me wrong.

I spoke to BT's Broadband Voice (VOIP) helpdesk about this once. They told me that you can use a fax machine over VOIP, but you have to drop the baud rate on the fax to 24,000. It is therefore slower than using it on a regular PSTN line, so it's not really a good idea.
 
I spoke to BT's Broadband Voice (VOIP) helpdesk about this once. They told me that you can use a fax machine over VOIP, but you have to drop the baud rate on the fax to 24,000. It is therefore slower than using it on a regular PSTN line, so it's not really a good idea.

Although not an ideal solution, that is a fantastically useful piece of information, not just for faxes, but for other modem based equipment and even the ability to run a secured dialup connection over VOIP that could be very handy indeed (some people have the most horrible VPN systems that can do nothing but dial!)
 
Although not an ideal solution, that is a fantastically useful piece of information, not just for faxes, but for other modem based equipment and even the ability to run a secured dialup connection over VOIP that could be very handy indeed (some people have the most horrible VPN systems that can do nothing but dial!)
tried that and didn't work for me
 
I won't take it as gospel then, will endeavour to try it when I can though!
 

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