[gui-talk] this fax thing

Fri Dec 19 17:46:46 UTC 2008

Albert,

So you're using your internal fax/modem as I hope to be  able to do? The 
arrangement you describe with the lines is perfectly sensible, although in 
my case, I've always had the splitter going into the single phone jacks  at 
the wall like you but with my router (or fax modem, I'm not sure which 
because I don't understand the principle and didn't set it up, myself) and 
the other side goes to my primary voice phone, land line obviously, which I 
keep on my desk beside my computer, as you would find in many such setups, 
blind or not.\

do you not keep a phone on your desk, close at hand? Do you use only a cell 
phone for your domestic phone, or at least for the one used while near the 
computer?hone? Do you have your most important land line phone in the house 
plugged into another phone jack on another baseboard, some rooms away from 
where you sit at your desk?

Personally, what I'll want to do is find a way to make the splitter work as 
a tree-way. The lSL Modem or my router, whichever it is, the land line 
phone, and then also the fax/modem.

Am I missing something, not understanding something?

thanks.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "albert griffith" <albertgriffith at sbcglobal.net>
To: "'NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List'" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 7:35 AM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] this fax thing

One phone line is hooked to my router and the other is hooked to my fax
modem.  I only have one phone jack so I first plug in the splitter so I no
have two outlets one for each wire.

-----Original Message-----
From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Steve Jacobson
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 11:18 AM
To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] this fax thing

Albert,

I'm not understanding the point you are making.  Sometimes a splitter might
be required if you don't have enough jacks, and one could use a splitter
after a DSL filter
just as one could if one were plugging in a phone or answering machine.  Am
I missing something?

On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:45:33 -0500, albert griffith wrote:

>I've always needed to use a splitter for the router and fax modem.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>Behalf Of Steve Jacobson
>Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 7:58 AM
>To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
>Subject: Re: [gui-talk] this fax thing

>Joel,

>Just connect your modem in the same way as you would connect your
>telephones.  One way or another, all of your
>phones likely run through filters and your modem needs to as well.  I have
>DSL and have also used a modem from time
>to time, and this approach should work.

>>----- Original Message ----- 
>>From: "Joel Deutsch" <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com>
>>To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
>>Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 1:01 AM
>>Subject: Re: [gui-talk] this fax thing

>>>I have plenty of filters on the ends of my phone lines and stuff. But
I've
>>> also got DSL and a router and someone said, I think, that I have to do
>>> something to get around that in order to use the phone line for the
modem
>>> temporarily instead of it being commandeered by the DSL modem. I got the
>>> filters and all that stuff, though.
>>>
>>> but if this would work for me, see, that'd be like having a "real" fax
>>> machine. That's all I really want, now and then.
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "albert griffith" <albertgriffith at sbcglobal.net>
>>> To: "'NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List'" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 9:38 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] this fax thing
>>>
>>>
>>> It's not hard.  You need to make sure you have a fax modem in your
>>> computer
>>> and that it's enabled.  You also need these little filter thinggies,
less
>>> than a dollar at Radio shack if you don't have them  and then you need a
>>> person with a fax capable set up to which you can fax a few times to get
>>> things right.
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org]
On
>>> Behalf Of Joel Deutsch
>>> Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 11:11 PM
>>> To: GUI-Talk
>>> Subject: [gui-talk] this fax thing
>>>
>>> I've got Open Book, a scanner,and I'm pretty sure my computer has a fax
>>> modem right in some slot that I happen not to use because I have a DSL
>>> Internet connection.  So as far as I know, I don't need some Cloud-based
>>> service to fax something. I just need someone to explain correctly how
to
>>> set things up so that I'll bypass my dsl modem when I want to in order
to
>>> fax something using my scanner and Open Books' scan function!
>>>
>>> Someone once said something rather complicated about hooking up all kind

>>> of
>>>
>>> stuff every time tyou do this,and then someone told me that wasn't right

>>> and
>>>
>>> it wasn't such a complicated thing to do.
>>> But how?
>>>
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