Re: [PCWorks] Faxes and email: Can you send a fax from a PC that uses DSL? (WAS: Converter/adapter from parallel printer port to USB port)
- From: David Grossman <dgrossman@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pcworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:19:05 +0200
If you can find one.
I think you're mixing generations and architecture.
Didn't the dial-up modem era end way before USB came along? I don't recall
seeing anything but ISA dial-up modems.
If you come across one, then it may handle one problem: I don't recall ever
seeing a BSOD that resulted from a USB connection.
You CAN (sort of) send faxes with a DSL modem. You send it to some service
where it's forwarded to the fax machine. Let THEIR fingers do the dialing.
Also, I think some older AIO printers with faxes let you send your fax from
your computer file. I don't know whether the fax goes through the AIO
printer.
These printers are dirt cheap now (buy a box of Cheerios and get three
printers plus a rebate coupon that can be used only at Circuit City for a
75-baud acoustic coupler modem with a pulse-dialing phone).
David Grossman
-----Original Message-----
From: pcworks-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pcworks-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 2:04 PM
To: pcworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [PCWorks] Faxes and email: Can you send a fax from a PC that
uses DSL? (WAS: Converter/adapter from parallel printer port to USB port)
So you'd have to have a **dial-up** (56k fax) modem, right?
If so, I guess I could always hook up one that's USB just to
fax then remove it.
-Clint
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Hugh Vandervoort" <hughva@xxxxxxxxx>
You would send faxes the same way David does. All you need is a
fax
modem and a telephone line.
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 6:30 AM, Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin
<> wrote:
> Unfortunately are still demanding the use of a fax. I
> recently
> got a keyboard skin and the form said it had to be mailed in
> or
> faxed. So I emailed them to asked if the info could simply be
> emailed (and I also sent them ALL of the info, even an image
> of
> the keyboard in case it could be emailed), and some spaz said
> "you must fax it in". So now I have to waste an entire
> freakin' black ink cartridge printing out a (mostly black)
> image of the keyboard.
>
> This brings up the question: how can you send a fax from a PC
> when you're using a DSL modem? I assume it's not possible
> since there is no way to dial? I did send faxes many years
> ago
> but that was when I was on dial-up.
> -Clint
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