Faxing over VOIP, is it possible?

[Nocturnal]

Has it improved and is it possible?

 

[Cooky]

Though I've never personally done it but I know it's possible.

 

[tvarad]

I have a Vonage connection and I have faxed documents from India to the U.S. without any problems.

 

[Kelemvor]

Yes it works fine. Just got my VoIP setup 2 days ago and haven't tried it myself... but it's supposed to work. No reason it wouldn't...

 

[ChurchOfSubgenius]

I have Sunrocket and do it all the time, I have had a couple dropped faxes but 80% success.

 

[cmetz]

Nocturnal, fax over VOIP will, depending on some details, work none of the time, some of the time, or most of the time. Faxing over VOIP wil not work all of the time. In order to make it work all of the time, you need to be doing real fax over IP, where the equipment on each end of the connection is participating in the fax protocol and helping adapt it to an IP network. There are a few different ways to do this, T.38 has the most mind-share but I believe it won't work if the connection has too much latency.

As far as I know, none of the VOIP providers currently deploy any of the fax over IP assists, so you're stuck with, at best, working most of the time.

Some VOIP providers offer fax<->email gateway services, I would recommend you investigate those. Or some other web/email<->FAX service provider - like EFax, but don't use EFax themselves.

 

[mikenova]

All you have to do is to get an Analogue adapter... We are using them, and they are working great. Don't know the brand, but can check it out when i'm at work..

 

[cycler45]

hi mike,

can you clarify what you mean by an analogue adapter? i have been having problems with sunrocket and faxes and didnt know what you meant by an analogue adapter. tia

 

[Rafael]

ATA - Analogue Telephone Adapter

Like the Linksys PAP2 or the Sipura 2001, and there many others ATA on the market.

We have some problems faxing other companies with VoIP, sometimes it is due to the compatibility between the VoIP provider and the phone company that the receiver is using.