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Facsimile through the PC why is it difficult

These days not many people use fax though if you still have a need for it.

It is frustrating that with the advent of Broadband etc. you have virtually lost that facility

The reason you can’t send faxes from your PC has nothing to do with XP.

The problem is due to the way broadband works.

When you sent a fax from your old PC, or a dedicated fax machine, it dialled up the recipient’s fax machine, making a one‐to‐one connection with it over the telephone network.

With broadband there is no dial‐up connection, your PC is permanently connected to the Internet through the local telephone exchange.

Of course if you wished you could always buy a stand‐alone fax machine

However, there are ways to send and receive faxes from your XP PC.

The simplest method is to install a fax modem and connect that to the phone socket.

With a bit of fiddling around it can be used to send and receive faxes whilst you are online as broadband leaves your phone line free for incoming and outgoing voice and fax calls.

Alternatively why not try a third party broadband fax service, similar to :‐ efax. Found at Fax by Computer [] The modus operandi is you upload the document to them, and they send it on as normal fax.

They also provide you with fax number, for others to send faxes to you and they come to you as an email attachment.

Needless to say services like this are not free and you or the sender will end up paying, either through a subscription or the use or premium rate phone numbers.

You makes your choice and pay the fee, or tell the recipient to join the 21st Century