how do you use dial up access when you are on a dsl line?
i am trying to fax using Microsoft Fax Console 5.1 w/ service pack 2. I am on a dsl line and was told to use dial up access in order to get a dial tone for faxing. How do I use dial up?
I have the same software and a DSL line and mine works, so let me tell you how I have mine hooked up. Hopefully it will work for you too. At the phone wall outlet nearest my computer I have the dsl filter installed and the special cable that came with the dsl modem hooked up to have dsl service. The fax can’t use dsl. It has to have an old fashioned modem (like a built-in 56K modem we used for dial-up internet access before dsl came along) and a regular telephone line. The dsl filter provides the ability to have a regular phone share the phone line with the DSL modem, so plug in a standard phone cord with the little modular ends like you use on a standard telephone, into the wall/filter, and the other end into the socket on the back of your computer for the built in dial-up modem. The dial-up modem will actually have 2 sockets. One is marked "line" or "line in". Plug the standard phone cable into that. Now it should work if you go through the "set up fax" in the program. In summary, you will have 2 cables into the back of your computer. One is slightly larger than the other. That one is for your DSL hook up. You will also have a standard phone cable (just the cable) plugged into the built in dial-up modem. If there aren’t any sockets on the back of your computer as I have described, then you don’t have a built-in modem and the fax will not work until you buy one, but they are cheap today. All faxes you send will be over your regular phone line and any long distance charges will show up on your phone bill just as if you had a fax machine you were using instead of the built in fax emulator in the software.
October 8th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
you should have recieved a dsl filter for you regular phones,that same filter must be plugged into the fax machine.
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October 8th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
You install a dial-up modem and plug it in to the phone line (you can get a separator so you can have the DSL Modem and the dial-up modem in at the same time)
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October 8th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
You would have to connect the modem on your computer (the standard Dial up modem) to your wall outlet using the same Line filters that your telephones have connected to them.
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October 8th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
I have the same software and a DSL line and mine works, so let me tell you how I have mine hooked up. Hopefully it will work for you too. At the phone wall outlet nearest my computer I have the dsl filter installed and the special cable that came with the dsl modem hooked up to have dsl service. The fax can’t use dsl. It has to have an old fashioned modem (like a built-in 56K modem we used for dial-up internet access before dsl came along) and a regular telephone line. The dsl filter provides the ability to have a regular phone share the phone line with the DSL modem, so plug in a standard phone cord with the little modular ends like you use on a standard telephone, into the wall/filter, and the other end into the socket on the back of your computer for the built in dial-up modem. The dial-up modem will actually have 2 sockets. One is marked "line" or "line in". Plug the standard phone cable into that. Now it should work if you go through the "set up fax" in the program. In summary, you will have 2 cables into the back of your computer. One is slightly larger than the other. That one is for your DSL hook up. You will also have a standard phone cable (just the cable) plugged into the built in dial-up modem. If there aren’t any sockets on the back of your computer as I have described, then you don’t have a built-in modem and the fax will not work until you buy one, but they are cheap today. All faxes you send will be over your regular phone line and any long distance charges will show up on your phone bill just as if you had a fax machine you were using instead of the built in fax emulator in the software.
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Personal experience.