If you are using a skype phone number, can you hook this up to a fax machine as well? Just want to be able to send faxes every now and then, no need to receive them.
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You can't use a fax machine but you can use an internet fax service. Because of the yearly fee and hourly rates, when I'rn out of time,I am going to magic jack. only $20 a year.
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Further to the last response, you have to have a "land line" for the modem to work. If you want to send faxes long distance, you have to have long distance available from your provider and set the pre-dial number (i.e. 1-xxx-xxx-xxxx) or whatever its called. The system does work. Dave
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Yes, it can send and receive faxes, tho I only use it to send. I'm on my second MP830, the first one worked perfectly for 6 yrs, until a rubber band popped into the feed mechanism, unbeknownst.
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If you mean the "Modem" that you use to receive your home phone service on , then yes you can, instead of plugging your phone into the modem, you plug the Brother Fax Machine" into the modem, it works out great because the Brother Fax Machine is also a Phone that can be used as a phone as well as a fax machine and a photo copier. I really like mine and am glad I bought it.
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There is nothing in the Owner's Manual regarding sending a fax via your computer. It does do an awesome job of sending multi-page faxes very quickly!! I typically send 26 to 30 pages with no problem! I have really enjoyed having this piece of office equipment as it takes the work out of sending a fax.
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You will need a phone line input in order to use the FAX function. The line can be shared for sending with your home line. Receiving on a shared line is more difficult. There are services on the internet that you can use your PC TO send and receive Fax messages they give you a separate phone number for this. Monthly charges come with this.
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Thanks to everyone for the help on this. I am going to try the suggestions and see if that works. I'd really like to be able to do an outbound fax anytime and receive a fax by pressing the receive button.I fear that the fax picking up in the middle of the call may be due to using VOIP with Vonage as it will occasionally make a faxish noixe when a second call comes in. Will report back the results -- ping me on this list by adding a reply if I don't (i get an email on each reply).
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I did not hook up the fax but from the directions you can use the line you already have. The printer is set up for analog phone services. For digital phones you might need to use digital to analog filters. Hopes this helps.
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Arthur, I have my Pixma's telephone line on a splitter, a DSL line. One line to modem, another to MP830. (Base phone and answering machine is in another room; can't connect to printer) Receive Mode is set to Manual RX. But every time I call my number from my cell phone (still in testing mode!) the fax answers after a couple of rings. Can't talk. So I'm leaving it disconnected until we can figure out the setting. Any ideas?
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My parents just bought this printer, but haven't installed it yet. Is this fax still free? The review comment state conflicting statements about that.Also, if it's only for sending 20, and receiving 20 faxes per month. Does that count all the spam faxes? I have an old free account with efax, and am always getting spam/scammer efax's. I don't even view them anymore because of it.
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No it doesn't come with a fax number. You could 'get' a number from a VoIP carrier, e.g, Vitelity and simply configure one of the FXS ports for faxing and then connect a fax to said port.
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Hi J.R. I do not own this phone. But I am about to buy one (or two) and have read the whole manual already, and I know a lot about Skype, and I think I can answer your questions: 1 - In order to have voicemail on your non-Skype line, you have to subscribe to voicemail with your landline phone company. The device does not do voicemail. But if you do subscribe to voicemail with your landline phone company, then the device will show if you have voicemail waiting for you. 2 - Yes, you can retrieve voicemail from your landline voicemail account. 3 - The only way for a non-Skype landline to call your "Skype number" is for you to have a SkypeIn phone number. You pay Skype to have a SkypeIn phone number. If a caller in your Caller List (already entered into your Caller List) calls you, then yes, you get caller ID and you can see who is calling. But if a stranger calls you who is not in your Skype caller list, you will not see caller ID. I hope this helped you. I am pretty sure my answers are 100% correct.
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ANswer is no. Wouldn't recommend this machine to anyone and the only reason I bought it was because I neededa fax/answering machine combo....only was I could find. Works okay, but not great........
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I still haven't used this fax machine yet myself, ... it's practically still brand new, ... sorry that I can't answer your question. But if you look up this fax machine online, it will tell you absolutely everything that it can do.
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Sorry, J.M. I have not heard of such a thing. All the Skype solutions I have read about are either just a handset you plug into your computer or are a full-blown computer replacement with handset like the VOIP841. They all have a handset. But I will suggest this.... You said you are "looking at switching to Skype". If you have not yet switched to Skype, I strongly recommend downloading Skype software for free to your computer and getting used to it that way before you get a standalone Skype device. There are a lot of strong features and icons and ways to do things that are unique to Skype, and using Skype on a computer will get you used to it. The Skype built into dedicated devices is a shorthand of the Skype icons and feature set, and it really helps to be Skype-savvy with the computer version before you go to a dedicated device. Just my opinion. For example, I have a SkypeIn number which rings in my Skype phone, and I only give out one number to everybody, instead of giving out a cell number, office number, home number. When I am at home I answer calls on my Skype phone. When I am away I answer calls on my cell phone to the same number, and all I do is change my Skype setting to "offline" in my Skype phone. Easy and great way to go. If you don't know about Skype, you don't know that you can change your setting to: Online, Skype Me, Offline, Away, Unavailable, Do Not Disturb, Invisible, and perhaps one or two others. When other people look me up in their Skype (computer or phone) they see my status set to one of these icons. Nothing like this is available with MagicJack or any other VOIP solution that I know of. So download Skype and get used to it first. ;-)
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You don,t need to connect to the internet to send and receive faxes. It,s been a while since i used mine but l am sure i did not need to configure anything. Hope this helps .
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I have been able to fax using a Magic Jack connected to the machine, as long as I was only sending or receiving 1 or 2 pages at a time. 3 pages and up seem to fail. There are tweaks on line to allow the user to set the router for magic jack for faxing. I have not tried them.