G+_Mr Awesomeness Posted February 5, 2018 Share Posted February 5, 2018 i have a Four in one printer (copy,scan,print, and fax) i want to be able to use the faxing part but without a land line seance the only good one is downstairs and my printer is up. is there a dongle i can get that will enable me to fax over the internet with my WiFi? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Brent Vrieze Posted February 5, 2018 Share Posted February 5, 2018 I am not sure what printer you have but if you want to fax over the internet there are services for that but you would scan the document and upload it to them. As far as automatic from the MFD(Multi Function Device) it would depend on the firmware and if they offered that capability. I know of no device that would do this out of the box though. Another option would be an ATA device that would take the POTS analog telephone signal and convert it to packets over the network but you would need to subscribe to a SIP phone service and pay for that capability but this I have only seen with wired connections. You would have to set up a wireless bridge to get connected back to your WiFi. Here are some options. We have problems with these at work tough because when the telephone signal gets packetized the different carriers treat the traffic different so YMMV. lifewire.com - The 6 Best Phone Adapters (ATAs) to Buy in 2018 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Paul Hutchinson Posted February 5, 2018 Share Posted February 5, 2018 I've never seen a dongle to send a FAX via the internet from a FAX machine. You might be able to use a cordless phone system to connect the multi-function printer/scanner' s phone connection to the downstairs phone line (FAX only needs a low quality voice connection to work). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ben Reese Posted February 5, 2018 Share Posted February 5, 2018 Simple answer is "no". More complicated answer is "yes, under the right conditions". Fax needs an uncompressed (or very lightly compressed) voice line. That's not usually an option. A single channel of a T1 line is 64 Kbps and that's what you get (or used to get) with a home telephone "POTS" line. I'm sure there's a way to connect a POTS to SIP adapter (ATA) to an analog line somewhere and SIP to POTS adapter at your fax machine. From what I'm seeing, only the G.711 codec will support 64 Kbps audio streams. G.726 will support 32 or 24 Kbps so might work. That should give some direction when looking for hardware. Sounds like a fun project and I'd love to see it work (I've also project to get a fax machine working on Wi-Fi when we get rid of our POTS line at church). It's just easier to run a phone line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Travis Hershberger Posted February 5, 2018 Share Posted February 5, 2018 Simple answer is to use an online fax service like was already mentioned. I don't know of a way to reliably send fax over a network or wirelessly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jonathan Bennett Posted February 5, 2018 Share Posted February 5, 2018 t.38 sip is designed precisely for this purpose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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