voip with efax

So why not just give out your efax number?

But yes, you can forward your phone number to efax and it will quite possibly work. It will be bypassing the equipment in your home entirely.

miguel

I don't understand, why would you want to forward your VoIP line to an efax number..?

VoIP and fax can work, but it depends on the codec used. Some work better than others. If I were you I'd forget about VoIP for fax use and just continue to use your existing efax number. Use VoIP for phone calls.

Ivor

there are no efax numbers available in my area code (even with the paid account), so my efax number is in NY while i am in CA. So i give customers a verizon fax number in my area and then forward it to the efax number. This way its a local call for them and i receive the document in efax. I've been doing this for several years now.

I've had very limited success experimenting with that (using other providers but essentially he same thing). It certainly should be possible but it's a matter of getting a good codec (and doing "reinvites", etc.).

I'm hoping to get one of my Asterisk boxes configured to handle faxes sometday...

--kyler

I have greatly improved fax speed by configuring my fax modem for Class 2 operation. Less "training" before the faxing begins. Class 1 seems to always cut doen fax speed from 14,400 to 7200. Class 2 transmits at 14,400 about 70% of the time, at 12,200 20% of the time, and 9600 10% of the time.

If your fax modem is capable of Class 2 operation, definitely use it in that mode. Otherwise, consider buying a new modem. They're dirt cheap these days.

I used e-fax with my SunRocket service for awhile until I set it up so that it would work with my all-in-one HP. e-fax does work pretty well with most of these VoIP providers.

I depends.

I'm doing just that with great results, but if my SIP-provider would forward the call via a low-bandwidth codec it wouldn't work.

/Henning

Don't even know what it would be called. Someone needs to have access to

2 phone lines from another site for a few months. Given the track record of the phone company around here it could take them that long to deal with the move.

Is there a pair of boxes that will allow us to plug into the POTS jacks at the original site and "relay" the POTS across a broadband connection to the new site were we'd have 2 RJ-11 jacks to use to access the POTS service at the original site?

Thank You

Sipura SPA-3000 at the end where the POTS jack is (one per POTS line, unfortunately), and then almost any SIP ATA at the remote end.

miguel