[kwlug-disc] [OT] voip fax/email to fax/ ccards

[John Van Ostrand]

----- "Paul Nijjar" <paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca> wrote:

> John's response reminded me that I had not thrown in a data point. We
> do use fax over VoIP for one of our buildings. The VoIP is Unlimitel,
> but instead of Asterisk we use a Linksys ATA and a fax machine. 
> 
> This is not supposed to work but for us it seems to be okay -- these
> people mostly exchange faxes with the same set of organizations.

As I understand it, that configuration is very dependent on the quality of the VoIP link. If it degrades too much it starts failing more than it succeeds.