Does YOUR VOiP let you FAX?

[ztirffritz]

Using VoIP to fax is never going to be very effective because the data has to be compressed, translated, and transmitted all over creation to get from point A to point B then it all has to be undone at the other end. VoIP is not well suited for this use. You're better off running a plain copper PSTN line into the modem on your computer, or into your fax machine if you have one. I've been trying to get faxing to work with my Asterisk server for a long time and it just doesn't work well unless you use regular phone lines. The beauty of using the Asterisk PBX to pick up faxes is that it will automatically email your faxes to you as a PDF. That is a cool feature. If you don't have a regular phone line, you could try out www.freedigits.com. They provide a fax number that you can use which will recieve faxes for you and email them to you. You can also email faxes to them them as email attachments and they will send it on as a fax.