Can I connect my fax machine wirelessly to eircom broadband?

Hesso2000

Hi there

I wonder if someone can help.

I recently purchased the Dell All in One Printer 964 that has a faxing feature. When trying to set this up with my Eircom broadband the manual gives a one line instruction "connect the printer directly to the output of the DSL filter" - which I presume is where my router connects into the phone line.

The problem is that my printer is in another room so can't connect the 2 without running loads of cable through the house...

Does anyone know if there is a way this can be set up wirelessly? I called Eircom to ask them but they didn't seem to know and advised me to call Dell...who of course told me I needed to talk to Eircom...

Any help, tips, advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance

irlrobins

I'm fairly certain you can't. As far as I know a Fax works on analogue single over the phone line. So unless there was some way to convert analogue to digital, send over wireless, convert from digital back to analogue and then send over the telephone line, it's not possible.

That's my take. Anyone else?

MunsterCycling

FAX is an analogue signal so as above you'd need something to do ADC then DAC at the other end, best either using cables or drop in favour of e-mail. Do people still FAX?

How are you connected to the modem, via WiFi? If you had a cable (ethernet) connection back you could use the redundant line on the CAT5 cable to hook up the phone line but I suspect you're using WiFi so you are stuck I'm afraid.

MC

Hesso2000

Yes you're right, I'm connected via Wifi to the modem...doesn't sound like that leaves me with a lot of options.

Unfortunately the companies I do work for seem to like faxing so will have to sort something else out. Thanks Munstercyling and irlrobins for your help though.

H

arseagon

With any of the companies I deal with I simply say "I Don't use fax, you'll have to email it to me" some of them grumble a bit at first but they get used to it eventually. It's easier and produces less paper i find.

Urban Weigl

Why not get in a service like j2? You can get a real fax number (they'll give you a US fax number for free, even), so that's great for incoming faxes. For a fee, you can also send faxes as well, and get an Irish fax number. It works over broadband grand.

MunsterCycling

Just had a thought, do you have a Vodafone bill pay mobile acc? Get the fax sent to your number but put the mailbox number as your fax and it will work, you then can login to vodafone mail and retrieve your fax online from wherever you are. You even get text telling you its arrived. Do it the rare occasion I need to receive a fax, so rare I'd forgotten it.

MC

eg 087 5 1234567 This woulb be the fax number of 087 1234567

Hesso2000

Thanks for all the help. I just checked out J2 and their efax service seems like just what I need. It's usually the accounts payable departments who are sticklers for faxing remittance advice and things so think that will keep them happy...

The mobile one is a good idea too, I'm on O2 though so not sure it would work with their e-mail service...then again am changing from that service as well as it has been giving me nightmares in the past few months since they upgraded the website.

As a first time poster on Boards I'd definitely come back here again for some good advice...

H

MunsterCycling

Glad to help, the O2 service is pretty dire compared to the Vodafone one but each to their own. I mean for gods sake they (O2) still charge to collect your voice mail FFS

MC

Oh yeah just to add that the Vodafone service is FREE!

Edit: The FAX service I meant.