[Asterisk-Users] soho fax suggestions?

[Jay Milk]

Maxemail.com is out there too.  $14.95/yr if you don't care about the
number, or $6/month if you do.  Not a bad deal for the service.
Outbound is still the most difficult, but there are print->fax drivers
out there.  Packetel has (or used to have) a $4/month option as well,
iirc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Eissler [mailto:mark at mixtur.com]
> Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 8:58 AM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion; 
> jnovack at stromberg-carlson.org
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] soho fax suggestions?
> 
> 
> 
> On Feb 13, 2005, at 4:43 PM, John Novack wrote:
> 
> >  I use JFAX which I think is also known as Efax.
> >  If you are open to a new fax number anywhere else in the
> US from your
> > home Zip code, then it is free.
> >  Otherwise there is a quarterly fee.
> >  AFAIK, you can't  port an existing number to them, but I
> could be off
> > on that. http://www.j2.com/jconnect/twa/page/servicesOverview
> 
> I have a free eFax number that I've maintained for testing...although
> I'm unable to fax to it via Sixtel (you begin to hear a carrier but 
> within 1/2 a second it's cut off). So much for testing.
> 
> I have also used a Broadvox residential account for inbound faxing
> (they include fax-to-email as part of their feature set). But I think 
> they may have broken this feature recently when they switched 
> to a new 
> VM system.
> 
> While you might not be able to port a phone number to eFax, there's
> nothing stopping you from forwarding a number to eFax.
> 
> But like I said, I've found outbound fax to be more of a problem than
> inbound. While the latter has worked well for me with Vonage and 
> Voicepulse, the bigger problem is the former (outbound) as it's only 
> ever worked reliably for me with a plain residential single-line 
> account that I've had since May 2003. With Broadvox faxing was 
> completely unreliable and often didn't work EVEN THOUGH they 
> have T.38 
> support. Here's what I learned though: just because your CPE supports 
> T.38 and your provider's gateway supports T.38, that doesn't 
> mean that 
> the carrier sitting in between supports T.38. Level 3, for instance, 
> doesn't support T.38 at the moment (at least, not in all markets). So 
> IMHO, T.38 ain't gonna do anyone any good until it's 
> implemented across 
> the board and who the heck knows when that might happen.
> 
> While eFax, and similar services, are some sort of a solution to at
> least half the problem, I just think using these services is 
> a kludge. 
> The beauty of fax is: stick a document in at one end, dial a number, 
> and the document spits out at the other end. No clumsy scanning and 
> emailing involved. And while some folks think Fax is dying, I just 
> don't agree. I think the technology needs to be rebuilt for IP, but I 
> don't think the concept is going to go away anytime soon.
> 
> -mark
> 
> --
> Mark Eissler, mark at mixtur.com
> Mixtur Interactive, Inc. - at - http://www.mixtur.com
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