OT Faxing from PC

Hello

I have an adsl connection.
I want to send a very occasional fax. Anyone know of a free way to do
it. It will probably only be a couple of times a year. No need for an
incoming facility.

TIA

Invisible Man wrote:
> Hello
>
> I have an adsl connection.
> I want to send a very occasional fax. Anyone know of a free way to do
> it. It will probably only be a couple of times a year. No need for an
> incoming facility.
>
> TIA
WinFax and a modem springs to mind.

You can mix a modem and ADSL easily. Modem is on baseband.

Any online fax send service will cost you money.

In article <gbl0h6$1c6$(E-Mail Removed)>,
www.GymRatZ.co.uk <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>or... set up VOIP then you can use T.38 fax protocol thingy which works
>well or...

Who do you know (in the UK) who terminates T.38 faxes?

Gordon

In article <gbl9ii$jr$(E-Mail Removed)>,
www.GymRatZ.co.uk <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>
>Gordon Henderson wrote:
>
>>> or... set up VOIP then you can use T.38 fax protocol thingy which works
>>> well or...
>>
>> Who do you know (in the UK) who terminates T.38 faxes?
>
>
>Hmmm... now you have me wondering...
>I have regularly sent faxes from home over T.38 (via one of the VOIP
>ports on my Draytek router set to T.38 enabled) to the shop G3 mode fax
>machine..... but am now wondering whether I sent them to my regular POTS
>"olden times" fax machine or to my voipfone fax number...
>
>I'll go home tonight and try sending to the regular BT landline fax.
>
>I'm 99% sure when I set it up originally I sent a number of faxes
>through and they came out just fine on the "ordinairy" fax machine.

They probably went via regular VoIP... You can "get away" with it when
you have a good connection and use G711 codec, however it really does
rely on a stable connection to keep the analogue "modem" signals usable.

Gordon

In article <gblbni$f27$(E-Mail Removed)>,
www.GymRatZ.co.uk <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>
>Gordon Henderson wrote:
>
>> They probably went via regular VoIP... You can "get away" with it when
>> you have a good connection and use G711 codec, however it really does
>> rely on a stable connection to keep the analogue "modem" signals usable.
>
>So what you are saying then Gordon is if the VOIP T.38 didn't detect a
>T.38 gateway it would have just gone with the next best protocol i.e.
>regular VOIP codec?

I's not an area I've spent much time with, but I'm assuming that's the
case.

>I just presumed that if I enabled T.38 then T.38 it would be, but what
>you say makes sense.

Mayby

>I did read somewhere on some BT .pdf this morning that T.38 would be
>supported from early 2008. Presumable with the conversion to 21CN IP
>exchanges or whatever the technology is then the likelyhood of T.38
>being a viable method of Fax. may be more likely that exchanges will act
>as gateways? or am I bumbling around in my own world of confusion?
>:¬)

Personally, I think it's an old technology that was a good stop-gap
while it lasted, but really ought to be consigned to the electronic bin
now.

We have email and digitial signatures - better than FAXes IMO.

Need to get more people using it though!

Gordon

"Gordon Henderson" <gordon+(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:gblgd0$1de7$(E-Mail Removed)...
> In article <gblbni$f27$(E-Mail Removed)>,
> www.GymRatZ.co.uk <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>
>>
>>Gordon Henderson wrote:
>>
>>> They probably went via regular VoIP... You can "get away" with it when
>>> you have a good connection and use G711 codec, however it really does
>>> rely on a stable connection to keep the analogue "modem" signals usable.
>>
>>So what you are saying then Gordon is if the VOIP T.38 didn't detect a
>>T.38 gateway it would have just gone with the next best protocol i.e.
>>regular VOIP codec?
>
> I's not an area I've spent much time with, but I'm assuming that's the
> case.
>
>>I just presumed that if I enabled T.38 then T.38 it would be, but what
>>you say makes sense.
>
> Mayby
>
>>I did read somewhere on some BT .pdf this morning that T.38 would be
>>supported from early 2008. Presumable with the conversion to 21CN IP
>>exchanges or whatever the technology is then the likelyhood of T.38
>>being a viable method of Fax. may be more likely that exchanges will act
>>as gateways? or am I bumbling around in my own world of confusion?
>>:¬)
>
> Personally, I think it's an old technology that was a good stop-gap
> while it lasted, but really ought to be consigned to the electronic bin
> now.
>
> We have email and digitial signatures - better than FAXes IMO.
>
> Need to get more people using it though!

Until the legal profession start accepting emails as "evidence" instead of
faxes, we've a long wait!

George

In news:gblag6$11v3$(E-Mail Removed),
Gordon Henderson <gordon+(E-Mail Removed)> typed, for some strange,
unexplained reason:

[snip]

: They probably went via regular VoIP... You can "get away" with it when
: you have a good connection and use G711 codec, however it really does
: rely on a stable connection to keep the analogue "modem" signals
: usable.
:
: Gordon

I've never had a problem sending the occasional fax from a standalone fax
machine over Sipgate. Only done it 3 or 4 times in as many years but it
always worked.

Ivor

In news:gblgd0$1de7$(E-Mail Removed),
Gordon Henderson <gordon+(E-Mail Removed)> typed, for some strange,
unexplained reason:

[snip]

: Personally, I think it's an old technology that was a good stop-gap
: while it lasted, but really ought to be consigned to the electronic
: bin now.
:
: We have email and digitial signatures - better than FAXes IMO.
:
: Need to get more people using it though!
:
: Gordon

The legal profession in particular cling to fax as it's not easy to
transmit a signature by email and a lot of legal documents require
signatures..! Yes you can attach a Word document or whatever but it means
scanning it in and a dedicated fax machine is a lot quicker.

Ivor

In news:gblgtn$inj$(E-Mail Removed),
www.GymRatZ.co.uk <(E-Mail Removed)> typed, for some
strange, unexplained reason:
: George Weston wrote:
:
: >> Need to get more people using it though!
: >
: > Until the legal profession start accepting emails as "evidence"
: > instead of faxes, we've a long wait!
:
: What, you mean a Fax actually became a legal document....
: There was I thinking it had to be a Telex to be official!
: ;¬))

Does Telex still exist..? Ah, bring back all those lovely noisy Creed
teleprinters..! Used to annoy my parents no end when I had a Creed 444 on
RTTY 20 years ago, especially when the autostart kicked in at 2am ;-)


Ivor

In news:(E-Mail Removed),
Owain <(E-Mail Removed)> typed, for some strange,
unexplained reason:
: Invisible Man wrote:
: > I have an adsl connection.
: > I want to send a very occasional fax. Anyone know of a free way to
: > do it. It will probably only be a couple of times a year. No need
: > for an incoming facility.
:
: For a couple of times a year I'd spend 50p and take it to my local
: library.
:
: Owain

I do it from work ;-)

Ivor