Hmmm.
I have a telephone cable coming through the wall - two copper pairs. One for telephone (voice), one for fax.
The telephone one has a small "sip" device (which I understand what it *does, but I don't understand the device itself). It routes all my calls, local and long distance, over the broadband internet connection via "skype like" software from
www.internetcalls.com
Works perfectly, doesn't cost me a penny - but I *do* need the copper pair - for various reasons - and, therefore pay the dreadful AT&T phone company for the rental of their copper.
I also pay rental (*heavily*) for the other copper pair that just runs the fax machine. This is not good.
I'd like to buy (ebay?) an equivalent device to connect my fax machine directly to the broadband connection and squeak my faxes down that line - then I can stop paying AT&T (spit) for the second copper pair.
I *really* do not want to lose the first copper pair, and I *really* do not want to keep the second pair - but *do* want to keep the standard fax machine system of put in paper, dial number, watch it feed through and assume it has arrived at the other end.
I'm not yet ready to either "send from pc" nor scan into pc (from same multifunction device) and have the document sent as an attachment, or whatever.
Any ideas? Most fax transmissions, btw, are Florida to UK CAA.