Fax Answers

Q: What is a USB fax modem? Do I need one? What kind should I get? How is it used?

Q: I’ve heard there is fax software available free of charge. What is it? Is it any good? Where can I find some for Windows and Mac computers?

My phone and fax machine share one line. I’m so sick of rushing to pick up a ringing phone only to hear that annoying tone that means it’s really a fax coming in. What can I do?

I’m planning on adding “call waiting” to my home phone service. Will this cause any problems with my fax machine?

I’d been using my PC to fax with Microsoft operating systems for years when I decided to upgrade to Vista. Now, I can’t fax at all. What am I doing wrong?

I need to send a fax through MacOS X, but it failed. Is there a way that I can automatically resend failed fax transmissions?

We are a small law office and have a fax machine and a local fax number. I would like to SEND faxes from our individual computers but keep the same phone number and have the incoming faxes go to the fax machine. Can that be done?

I have just faxed someone to their fax machine through my computer. How do they send one back to me, do they use my email address or my fax number

I travel with my laptop quite a bit and typically have two problems when I’m on the road. First, not everywhere I go has wireless Internet access, so I need to be able to dial in with a modem to check my e-mail. Second, I sometimes need to send faxes while I’m out of town. […]

I received a fax, and I know the phone number that it came from. I’d like to know the name of the person or company that sent it. Is there a reverse fax number directory that will give me that information?