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Email Fax
« on: July 08, 2010, 07:30:29 PM »
I signed up a few years back for MyFax, which gives you a fax number and then sends them to your email address as .pdf files. They then sold it to some other company and now I am having problems.
I receive faxes fine but when I try to send a fax to myself via my own fax machine, it never goes through. I called them up and they said that I am transmitting too slow. Anyone know anything about that? I am using an HP Laserjet M1522nf and I am using a internet phone line via Optimum Online

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Re: Email Fax
« Reply #1 on: July 08, 2010, 07:39:24 PM »
is it worth $10/month?
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Re: Email Fax
« Reply #2 on: July 08, 2010, 07:56:53 PM »
In addition to the fax service or replace it? I am paying only $4/month for the service
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Re: Email Fax
« Reply #3 on: July 08, 2010, 08:01:22 PM »
were you grandfathered in? http://www.myfax.com/pricing.aspx
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Re: Email Fax
« Reply #4 on: July 08, 2010, 08:26:14 PM »
Is your phone VOIP? very often that can cause problems with faxes.
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Re: Email Fax
« Reply #5 on: July 08, 2010, 10:36:50 PM »
Quote from: elikay on July 08, 2010, 08:26:14 PM
Is your phone VOIP? very often that can cause problems with faxes.

Yes, it is. Is there anything I can do other than changing to a landline?
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Re: Email Fax
« Reply #6 on: July 08, 2010, 10:37:20 PM »
Quote from: moish on July 08, 2010, 08:01:22 PM
were you grandfathered in? http://www.myfax.com/pricing.aspx
I guess so because they are not charging me $10/month
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Re: Email Fax
« Reply #7 on: July 08, 2010, 11:59:10 PM »
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Re: Email Fax
« Reply #8 on: July 09, 2010, 11:26:54 AM »
im having the exact same problem and it started when i switched to optimum. I also started a thread about it here on the forum.
Meanwhile I am using one of the other services for a month trial and i guess after that ill go to a nother service for the trial etc......
they gave me a 2nd number but that also isnt working
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Re: Email Fax
« Reply #9 on: July 09, 2010, 11:30:57 AM »
Quote from: ygift on July 09, 2010, 11:26:54 AM
im having the exact same problem and it started when i switched to optimum. I also started a thread about it here on the forum.
Meanwhile I am using one of the other services for a month trial and i guess after that ill go to a nother service for the trial etc......
they gave me a 2nd number but that also isnt working

Which other services give free trials?
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Re: Email Fax
« Reply #10 on: July 09, 2010, 11:42:56 AM »
google for efax and a whole bunch come up.
I just tried it with the 2nd number they gave and it did work. im trying with the origanal number now and so far its not working.
whats funny is that the trail says that that the sending fax number is my origanal number (the one that I have the problem like you) and caller id is my home number and the recieving fax is the 2nd number they gave me.
in other words the way their system is doing it is by forwarding it from the 2nd temp number they gave me to the origanal number. very odd but at least now its finally doing something
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Re: Email Fax
« Reply #11 on: July 09, 2010, 11:48:29 AM »
MyFax gave you the second number? I can just call them and they will give it to me?
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Re: Email Fax
« Reply #12 on: July 09, 2010, 07:24:21 PM »
call them and complain. dont tell them that someone els told u that they gave another number. tell them that when u send a fax to other efax numbers it does work but only to ur number it doesnt
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Re: Email Fax
« Reply #13 on: July 10, 2010, 02:19:01 PM »
I had this same problem with faxing over a VoIP line to my own MyFax account. The solution seems to be setting your fax machine on international mode where it sends it a different way. I believe that MyFax can actually switch your account to a different server which will work a little better. Let me know if you guys had success and what you told them, so I can try that for myself.

The ma'ala of MyFax is that for $10 a month you get incoming AND outgoing (I just fax to 7185555555@myfax.com from a registered email address and they send the fax through). With pfax, which I think it only $3 or $4 a month, you only get incoming. I personally need SOME outgoing so I went with MyFax.
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Re: Email Fax
« Reply #14 on: July 10, 2010, 10:20:58 PM »
eli what is international mode?? how do you do such a setting? will that make a problem with regular faxing ?
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Re: Email Fax
« Reply #15 on: July 11, 2010, 04:08:12 AM »
im trying to understand. i assume most people here have a printer. which probably means you also have a fax machine. i cant figure out why its worth 10/month for this service then. whenever you need to fax, move the cord from the phone to the fax machine?
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Re: Email Fax
« Reply #16 on: July 11, 2010, 06:28:04 AM »
On my old Brother fax machine there was a setting. Not every machine has it. My new HP doesn't seem to have it although I never tried faxing yet over my VoIP line.
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Re: Email Fax
« Reply #17 on: July 11, 2010, 04:21:27 PM »
DONT PAY you can get this Service for FREE!! go to k7.net and you will get it for FREE.. YIDDISH GELT$$
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Re: Email Fax
« Reply #18 on: July 11, 2010, 05:59:11 PM »
The problem with voip faxing has to do with packet transmission. Voip is good for voice (?) not for fax, so If you change the settings it can help. For more info see the link above.
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