At 10:11 PM 8/31/2001 -0700, Richard McCoy wrote:
>What are the benefits of connecting an external fax to an ext in a
KXTD1232, instead of just having the fax attached to that line alone?
It probably depends on the amount of Fax traffic you have. The benefit of
having the machine as an extension is that you can use the fax line as an
extra voice line. I have a single line customer who uses a fax switch to
catch autofax calls and the answering machine to dial the fax switch
transfer code if the customer dials manually. When I had only 2 lines, my
fax was on line 2 and I had a switch that brought in the fax on trunk 4
which rang the fax extension. I could give out my 800 number and the cheap
customers could fax me toll-free by dialing the 800 number and pressing
option zero to reach the fax. Outbound, the *3x codes were fax frequently
dialed numbers...This was back in the days when my first GIII fax machine
cost, gulp, $1000 and it had limited autodial.
When your fax traffic gets up to 5-10 or more faxes a day, it's probably
time to dedicate the fax line and retire the fax switch. Or, as an
alternative, I have a free efax number that I give out to telemarketers and
customers if I want to throw away the fax with or without reading it, or
keep an archival copy forever. It has cut down on my fax traffic to the
point where I may just go back to that shared line again :-).
Now if I can just get the 900# poll takers and the Florida vacation trip
people to quit faxing my regular fax machine I'll be happy.
Carl Navarro
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