Using PC for FAXing - help please

[Chris V]

Have set my PC up to receive FAXs. It starts to receive then has fatal error after 51 seconds - for every message.
Any ideas?

[Spiderman]

I'm no IT geek but i have had to do the same on one of the comps at work. Are you using the Fax that comes with XP? Its fairly easy to set up if you are.

[Chris V]

I'm no IT geek but i have had to do the same on one of the comps at work. Are you using the Fax that comes with XP? Its fairly easy to set up if you are.

Yep but it seems to want to work through the old 56K modem and doesn't give me any other options.

[Spiderman]

Fro memory you have to tell it what to use to dail out, somewhere in the "cinfigure fax" options i think.
I could walk you thru my setup at work but wont be ale to do that till tomorrow. You able to get on here during the day?

[600+]

as far as i can remember you need to have the old 56k modem for that to work

[Chris V]

Spiderman - thanks for the offer but I am very busy at present (am using a copyshop in town to receive FAXs at 50p per page)

600+ thanks, I suspect you are right. Thats the only one that the menu gives me as an option. I am on 4Mg broadband.

[Luckypants]

Fax send or receive needs a proper analogue phone line. It does not use your ADSL (or any other) broadband connection. To use fax from your PC you will need a FAX/modem modem (most 'puters have them).

The reason for his is fax is an analogue standard and uses them 'orrible squaky sounds to send the fax data, same as a dial up modem.

[Baph]

Fax send or receive needs a proper analogue phone line. It does not use your ADSL (or any other) broadband connection. To use fax from your PC you will need a FAX/modem modem (most 'puters have them).

The reason for his is fax is an analogue standard and uses them 'orrible squaky sounds to send the fax data, same as a dial up modem.

That, or pay for someone to receive your faxes, and translate them into email. :)

[Luckypants]

Fax send or receive needs a proper analogue phone line. It does not use your ADSL (or any other) broadband connection. To use fax from your PC you will need a FAX/modem modem (most 'puters have them).

The reason for his is fax is an analogue standard and uses them 'orrible squaky sounds to send the fax data, same as a dial up modem.

That, or pay for someone to receive your faxes, and translate them into email. :)Yeah, just a bit dodgy for confidential info, init?

Setting up fax on a PC really is a pop.

[Baph]

Fax send or receive needs a proper analogue phone line. It does not use your ADSL (or any other) broadband connection. To use fax from your PC you will need a FAX/modem modem (most 'puters have them).

The reason for his is fax is an analogue standard and uses them 'orrible squaky sounds to send the fax data, same as a dial up modem.

That, or pay for someone to receive your faxes, and translate them into email. :)Yeah, just a bit dodgy for confidential info, init?

Setting up fax on a PC really is a pop.

Most are pretty safe, it's an automated process, and they don't keep the images. Or that's what they say.

We do similar here, only we use a Linux machine to talk to the modem, the modem gets a ring, it picks up, and there's a script to translate DTMF to a .tiff file (picture to non-geeks), which it then emails to the appropriate person by reading the picture in imagemagik.