Re: Fax number


"Ed Cryer" <ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Ed Cryer wrote:
I had a superb meal in a Lakeland hotel recently. We're going back
ASAP, but in the meantime I emailed them for their menu.
I got this reply;
"Thank you for your kind report! We are glad that you enjoyed your
meal with us. Do you have a fax number as we've got a bit of a blip
in the system here and are unable to email the menu."

I use telephone broadband. Is there any way I can use it for fax, and
simply give them this number?

No, you need to use an ordinary 56k type modem. Your PC may already
have one. Cable it directly to the phone soclet, not via a broadband
filter

Standard modems usually have to be connected via a broadband filter. A
few have filters built in. A few are able to ignore the broadband
carrier.




You mean I could have routed it through the bb filter; and then it
wouldn't have answered standard incoming calls?

Why would a modem not answer an incoming call when connected through a
filter? The signals it responds to are standard telephone ringing
current and audio signals and they *have* to be connected through a
filter. My laptop modem won't work on a broadband system without a
filter. As a result both my modems and my fax machine are connected to
my broadband through filters (same phone circuit). All work perfectly.


So then, if I may push it to the useful final conclusion, I route the 56k
modem through a bb filter, and everything works just fine? Including the
fax service not answering incoming calls through the unfiltered input?


This didn't make sense the first time you posted it either.

Here's the set-up;
One BT telephone socket.
Filtered and unfiltered input to it.
BB modem and 56k modem both sharing filtered input.
Telephone into unfiltered input.


I think you may be confused over which is filtered and which isn't. If the
Broad Band 'modem' was connected to a filtered output, it wouldn't work
because it is the broad band carrier that the filter is designed to filter
out.


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