How to Fax without a Landline???

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| > Getting rid of your landline eliminates the ability to fax normaly, as you
| > know,
| > I gather the landline connection is part of your normal phoneline, so why
| > not just continue to use it that way for faxing only?
| >
|
| Great question... the truth of the matter is that I recently switched to
| high-speed cable. I come to realize that 90% of our calling is now done
| through our cell phones and we are paying $25+ a month for the landline.
| This surfaced the question, why not save $300 a year. I started to talk
| to others who have already gone down this path. It sounds the only major
| problem with getting rid of the landline is how to fax.
|
| It looks like the leading possibility is using an online service. I am
| still very hopeful that there might be a way to get either the computer or
| all-in-one to the cell phone.

Since you now have high-speed cable, you could save about $120 instead
of $300 by going with a VOIP such as Vonage and keeping the ability to
send and receive faxes via phone. I did that recently and have been
very pleased with it. Since I had been using the cell phone for 100%
of my long distance calls, I was able to save further by cutting my
level of cell service and using Vonage for most long distance.

Larc



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In message <[email protected]> "Dan Jensen"
In hoping for further thoughts... the good news is that this all-in-one is
able to send a fax without having to go through the computer. It just
needs the phone line. Is there anyway to connect the all-in-one phone jack
to the cell phone?
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Not unless you have an analog phone.
 
In hoping for further thoughts... the good news is that this all-in-one is
able to send a fax without having to go through the computer. It just
needs the phone line. Is there anyway to connect the all-in-one phone
jack to the cell phone?
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Go to the following link and check out the http://sandman.com/pouches.html
"Cellular POTS Adapters" a little way down the page.

With luck they will have one that fits your cellular phone. Rather than
pluging in a "Ma Bell" style phone into the adaptor you would plug in your
fax machine.
 
GlowingBlueMist said:
Go to the following link and check out the http://sandman.com/pouches.html
"Cellular POTS Adapters" a little way down the page.

With luck they will have one that fits your cellular phone. Rather than
pluging in a "Ma Bell" style phone into the adaptor you would plug in your
fax machine.
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Rats, I did more reading and it appears the units will not support a fax
feed after all, or at least the one I read the docs on. Sorry.
 
Efax has a free incoming fax option if you receive less than 25 faxes a
month. I think it's 25. Any more than that and you have to sign up for a
paid account.
 
Fitz said:
Efax has a free incoming fax option if you receive less than 25 faxes a
month. I think it's 25. Any more than that and you have to sign up for a
paid account.
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That's right. Problem is, you can't control incoming faxes - if some idiot
decides to send you a 26-page fax then bang goes your free account. It
happened to me so now I've dropped Efax.

J
 
You are correct. However I've had 3 free efax accounts for several years
now. I've only received two 2 page faxes not meant for me. I contacted
efax and they deleted those faxes from my monthly quota. But as I said, you
can sign up for send2fax.com to send and receive faxes. I just didn't like
paying to receive faxes so I used the efax accounts.
 
Although I don't believe the LG VX4500 has the capability to send faxes you
can purchase mobiles with this feature. I would suggest you contact your
local telecommunications provider.

Ray Chapman
 
For along time I had a service that was free then thru which you sent
and received faxes via the internet. A google search would probably
show you several of these.
 
Dan Jensen said:
Great question... the truth of the matter is that I recently switched to
high-speed cable. I come to realize that 90% of our calling is now done
through our cell phones and we are paying $25+ a month for the landline.
This surfaced the question, why not save $300 a year. I started to talk
to others who have already gone down this path. It sounds the only major
problem with getting rid of the landline is how to fax.
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You may also want to review why you use a fax and if there is some reason to
keep using it. In my case it was because of the "fax it to me" requests. I
would politely ask if they had email and if I could email it to them. That
was usually greeted with "you can do that!, I wish we could get rid of our
fax machine too..." Or when asking if the sender could email something I
would get a happy "yes, I wish more people would ask for that..." So after a
while I was able to simply unplug the fax machine and cancel the landline..
 
It may not happen soon, but with the advent of VOIP and internet phones
there is talk of the possibility of faxing over cable. The technology is
there and my cable provider, for one, is already leaking snippets to the
local media regarding this.
 
Peter said:
It may not happen soon, but with the advent of VOIP and internet phones
there is talk of the possibility of faxing over cable. The technology is
there and my cable provider, for one, is already leaking snippets to the
local media regarding this.
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Yes, but my point is why in 2005 do we need to "fax" anything? As I
described most of it simply seems to be because that is what was done in the
past.
 
George said:
Yes, but my point is why in 2005 do we need to "fax" anything? As I
described most of it simply seems to be because that is what was done in the requests. something
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Sometimes, email just won't do. The recipient requires a specific document
or filled form. Recently, we had the need due to time pressure, to fax an
application to the insurer. Although I have fax capability on my computer,
I have disabled the phone modem as a safety precaution. I do not own a
scanner, so it was off to Staples, anyway. Cost a buck for the one page
document--not a high price to pay, nor was it inconvenient (5 minutes away).

If you really need to fax, and only have a cell phone, it is possible to do
so. I have seen 'road warriors' whose cars were equiped with laptop,
printer, scanner, and fax. The computer and fax were connected via cell
phone.

HankG
 
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