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More info?)
"Mark W. Oots" <mark_ctc@(no spam)ameritech.net> wrote in message
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> "Bunny" <Bunny@bunny.com> wrote in message
> news:LVtIe.504$x43.297693@twister.nyc.rr.com...
> > Can John Navas or someone else explain if/how I can fax using a regular
> > fax machine connected to a V3 using phonelabs Dock 'n Talk? (Yes I know
> > the device doesn't claim to support fax).
> >
> > It dials successfully, but when the call is answered it gets as far as
> > "Connecting" and then errors out. Is it because the digital signal
isn't
> > reliable enough, ala analog, to communicate properly?
> >
> >
> The problem is likely related to the fact that the data gets corrupted by
> the sampling/compression of the phone. Your compressed data from the fax
> machine gets sampled as audio, then compressed again before it is
> transmitted. At the other end, the system is trying to decipher what turns
> out to be incomplete data and the fax connection drops. Analog phones
worked
> because the fax data was simply sent as an analog modulation of the
signal.
> You're not likely to get any GSM phone to work for fax, unless the phone
> itself is generating the data packet. (being used as the fax modem.)
>
> Mark
>
>
try CSD from a PC/laptop or use one of the online fax services
siemens ///c56 supports fax class 1
http://www.phonescoop.com/phones/phone.php?p=198
http://www.howardforums.com/archive/topic/626975-1.html
Built in modem data & Fax support - 14.4Kbps CSD & Fax
http://www.popularelect.com/sendo_x-560.html
john's stuff
http://navasgrp.home.att.net/tech/cingular/fax.htm