Fax over cell adapter?

[Arne73]

Does anyone have the ability to fax by way of a cell adapter such as the Huawei F256VW?
Background: I live out in the country with terrible land lines. I eliminated land-line to my house several years ago with service thru Verizon using the F256VW fixed wireless terminal. It accepts the cell signal and then is hard wired into my existing home phone lines.
I recently tried to fax and found that an analog signal (fax) cant be sent over the cell network.
Would a VoiP adapter work in this case such as a Grandstream HT801 or Cisco SPA112?
Fax ability isn't critical for me but I'd like to have the capability for the infrequent times I need it.

Thanks in advance-

 

[ripperd]

I use magicjack (VOIP) and faxes are pretty hit and miss over it. And that's with fast cable internet.

Over cellular I think the jitter and latency will probably just be too great. However, there are plenty of internet faxing services you can use. Just print/scan what you want into a PDF and then upload to the faxing service with the destination number. I don't think they are very expensive.

 

[Phantomd]

What about something like efax.com? I just did some quick googling. Does a google voice number handle faxes?

 

[Arne73]

Thanks guys-
E-fax will probably be the solution.

Thanks again-
Coop

 

[wyliesdiesels]

Yes you can use an ATA (analog telephone adapter) for faxing.

I use an ObiTalk202 for an analog fax line and it works just fine.

I get a VOIP line from VOIP.ms for my fax. Its pretty cheap.

Ive heard the Cisco ATAs are horrible.

 

[Kaizen]

people still fax?

scanners on all in one printers are far easier. send via email

 

[ripperd]

people still fax?

scanners on all in one printers are far easier. send via email

Email is not suitable for certain types of private data. And for old fashioned places that don't have any type of secure upload, fax is still the go-to for this type of data.

 

[wyliesdiesels]

people still fax?

scanners on all in one printers are far easier. send via email

Ive had to fax the IRS, the state, and certain customers who cannot accept scanned docs via email. So yes people still use fax

 

[cybrdyke]

Ive had to fax the IRS, the state, and certain customers who cannot accept scanned docs via email. So yes people still use fax

just curious. to the receiving party (IRS, state), what's the difference between a scanned doc and a fax? A fax is, after all, a scanned doc.
CD

 

[wyliesdiesels]

you'd have to ask the IRS that question.

 

[ard]

Email is not suitable for certain types of private data. And for old fashioned places that don't have any type of secure upload, fax is still the go-to for this type of data.

True.

I will scan and password protect the pdf file if it has private data.

Also, most fax receipts for large organizations basically convert it into a pdf on receipt and route it. There is no paper. Arguably it does cut out PART of the vulnerability.


Just saying.

 

[ripperd]

True.

I will scan and password protect the pdf file if it has private data.

Also, most fax receipts for large organizations basically convert it into a pdf on receipt and route it. There is no paper. Arguably it does cut out PART of the vulnerability.


Just saying.

Yes, to the receiving party, often they use fax-to-email devices that drop the fax as an email in their inbox. However, the connection between that device and the corporate email system is very carefully secured.

That is not the case with your gmail sent-items folder. As well the majority of servers that are between your PC and the destination PC only use best-effort encryption that often can be man-in-the-middle attacked. However, that vulnerability has gotten much better in the last 6-7 years with more pervasive TLS between servers and being able to publish verification information in DNS.

 

[u2slow]

My experience with VOIP and fax... was it required a premium/business subscription to function. Would not sync up in a basic line.

At that point, I gave up on faxing entirely. Scan/photo & email, or they can wait for it in the snail mail.

 

[wyliesdiesels]

My experience with VOIP and fax... was it required a premium/business subscription to function. Would not sync up in a basic line.

At that point, I gave up on faxing entirely. Scan/photo & email, or they can wait for it in the snail mail.

I pay less than $1 per month each for hosted VOIP lines for my business. I have an ATA that connects to the VOIP server, which spits out an analog dial-tone that the fax machine connects to. It works just fine and Ive never had an issue sending faxes

 

[u2slow]

I pay less than $1 per month each for hosted VOIP lines for my business. I have an ATA that connects to the VOIP server, which spits out an analog dial-tone that the fax machine connects to. It works just fine and Ive never had an issue sending faxes

Its great that is available for you.

$10/month here for a basic VOIP to a household. Price doubled for fax capability last I checked. A voice line added via my ISP is ~$20/month.

 

[wyliesdiesels]

Its great that is available for you.

$10/month here for a basic VOIP to a household. Price doubled for fax capability last I checked. A voice line added via my ISP is ~$20/month.

Huh? VOIP.ms (that's their website) is available in canada as well

As long as you have a broadband internet connection, you can get service from them for the same price.

Theyre giving your ISP a run for their money