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by tjmc 5902 days ago
Exactly - combine the 2 and you might finally kill off the dreaded fax machine (which despite being more arcane than the floppy disk, stubbornly refuses to die)

My parents were trying to get a fax machine working over a VOIP line the other day - a 19.2K modem on a 20MBit DSL connection. Makes you cry a little when you think about it.

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Heads up: Fax won't work over plain VOIP because of the audio compression; it's unlikely they have a gateway available on their network that will do T.38 FOIP, they'd need a real POTS line to send a fax (or use one of the many internet fax services).