Modems have been in use by the private sector since the early 1960s. All modems use phone lines to transmit information, but not every modem is the same. As the name implies, a "fax modem" is intended ...

If your company only has the resources for a single telephone line, you can use it to support a telephone, fax machine and a computer modem. While ideally you would have a dedicated phone line for ...

Fax modems and fax boards are valuable tools for certain specialized applications on personal computers. These tools are widely misunderstood, though, and under no circumstances should they be ...

Not long ago, fax modems were exotic, expensive, cutting-edge technology. Today they’re standard equipment on many home and small business PC packages. In fact, it’s hard to find a modem today that ...

There are two other standards that the latest commercial modems require: V.42bis for data compression and V.42 for error correction. A typical commercial modem ...

A dusty driver inside Microsoft Windows, shipping for years and years and no doubt on your own Windows PC right now, has ...

Stand-alone fax machines are so 1980s. And fax modems are so 1990s. VoIP is so now. But what happens when they meet, i.e., you want to send a stand-alone fax or a fax modem transmission over a VoIP ...

At work they needed to pull in about 4 fax machines to get faxes in from a bunch of reps out in the field. I'm not sure how long term this is but they wanted to avoid if possible the hassle of having ...

Data/fax/voice modem chipsets are available from several companies, including Cirrus Logic, Inc., EXAR Corp., Phylon, Inc., and Sierra Semiconductor Corp. Choosing the best such modem for an ...

Add or Remove Programs entry for Soft Data Fax Modem with SmartCP. This is a driver and configuration settings application for some OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) dial up modems with fax ...

Dale Mericle needs to fax, and he’s relied on his Mac since 2000. In macOS Sierra, it no longer works: his USRobotics 5637 doesn’t appear as a printer option. Dale, it’s not you, and it’s not ...