Sending Fax

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Louise Stuart

I cannot send a fax it keeps saying no answer even though
I know the line's clear. I can hear it dialing and then
nothing. I use Broadband and XP.

Someone please help.
 
Louise said:
I cannot send a fax it keeps saying no answer even though
I know the line's clear. I can hear it dialing and then
nothing. I use Broadband and XP.

Someone please help.
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I don't see how you can hear it dialling as a broadband 'modem' has no way
of decoding dialling signals. In order to send a fax a correctly configured
analogue modem, attached to a standard phone line, is required.

A broadband 'modem' is nothing more than an external (they're usually
external) network card connecting you to a vast WAN (Wide Area Network).

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Since you say you hear dialing, I assume that you do have an analog
modem as well as a broadband connection and that it is properly
connected to a phone line (though this latter "aint necessarily so" if
someone has set up the modem not to wait for a dial tone before
dialing out). After hearing dialling, you should hear ringing (usually
at least one or two cycles) and then the ringing should stop and you
should hear the other end pick up and send fax tones. If you never
hear ringing, something is wrong with your line or with the number you
are dialing - perhaps you need a special prefix to get an outside
line. If you do hear ringing, the problem almost has to be at the
"other end".
 
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