Fax Answers

What’s up with Packetel? I’ve been using their service to receive faxes for years.

Q: How can I get a free Internet fax number? What are the pros and cons of free fax numbers?

Q: How can I send and receive faxes over a VoIP phone line, reliably?

Q: We keep getting a notation on our fax transmission reports that we have “poor line condition” on our fax. What is “poor line condition”? If this is causing transmission problems (as I suspect) how do we fix our “line condition”?

Q: What is Windows Fax and Scan? In what versions of Windows is it available? How is it used?

Q: Are wireless fax machines completely wireless?

Q: What is a fax server? What can a fax server do that a fax machine can’t do?

Q: I hear Windows XP can send and receive faxes. How is it done?