[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Fax Question

[Michael Sampson]

Your best bet is to just not use fax machines. They are outdated 
technology. With email there is little reason to use fax machines 
anymore. But for some reason people just feel the need to hang on to them.

A good solutions is to get a fax machine that supports fax to email. We 
have a Brother 8440D, that you can type in a fax number or a email 
address and hit send, works the same both ways. Only with the email it 
attaches a tiff image to an email. You can also set up an email box that 
the fax machine will check and download and print "faxes" from. And if 
you must have a fax number, you can sign up for a fax to email phone 
number for a provider like efax.com.

Michael Sampson
Information Systems Manager
Customer Contact Services
msampson at yourccsteam.com
952-936-4000



Darrick Hartman wrote:

> mkumar at mantragroup.com wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I want to configure fax with Asterisk and I found that we can do this 
>> reliably
>> using G711 codec only. Currently my provider is supporting G729 and 
>> G711.
>> During the call initiation the call starts with G729 (1'st priority) and
>
>
> Faxing via VoIP is not reliable period.  You're only gonna waste time. 
> If you really insist on trying, buy a second DID and register that one 
> with g711 only.
>
> Darrick