Receive fax fine; Send fax "There is no answer" error.

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Help! About 4 days ago I sent a fax successfully. Today, I cannot send a fax
- not even just a cover sheet fax.

When I try to send a fax I cannot hear the phone line being opened nor the
number being dialed like I did 4 days ago. The "Fax Monitor" box indicates on
one line that it is dialing the fax number and the next line has the "There
is no answer" error.

However, when I do a manual receive today I can hear the phone line being
opened and the fax machine make the standard noises as it tries to receive a
fax.

Ideas on what my problem is?
 
Thank you for the help. My U.S. Robotics 56K Voice Win 1806 modem does not
appear on the compatibility list.
 
Sounds like what was happening to me. When I put commas in front of the fax
number to force a pause before it dialed I successfuly sent a fax for the
first time in about 50 tries. My modem doesn't seem to be one of the
"officially" compatible ones either.

By now you've probably got this resolved by I thought I'd throw in my 2
cents worth anyway. It's so rare that a Luddite like me has what might be a
worthwhile suggestion...lol.
 
Sounds like it might be phone company equipment related-- Long delay before
dial tone sent to the subscriber.
You don't by chance have a DSL phone line? Or one of the carrier lines AT&T
was putting in in the large metro areas?
 
No that's not it. I get a dial tone right away - the problem was that even
though I had set the fax up to "wait" for a dial tone it went zippety-doo-dah
and wound up trying to send the fax when there was no connection. The fax
monitor/console gives me a "there was no answer" message but when I put the
call on speaker phone I eventually hear "please hang up and try your call
again".

What solved it was getting rid of the *70 to disable call waiting.

Darlene
 
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