Help with Obi202 newbie coming from a MagicJack Plus
Billt928:
I have also left MagicJack Plus or should I say returned it to best buy a week after getting it.
So I looked around and found the OBi202 and though great. set it up with two GV lines
GV and faxes did not work so great so I went to callecntric for that line, and also use them for E911
and a few custom calling plan later I'm very happy with the service. I ended up porting both lines to callcentric. spending about $13 a month and its been rock solid and includes name and number caller id.
I still have the other GV lines on the OBi202, but do not use them much but I have them setup as call forward numbers for other outbound callcentric numbers I have
Lavarock7:
Quote from: Integraoligist on June 07, 2012, 01:21:28 pm
I was looking into those fax services... the problem is that when a fax is recieved, I would have to call my staff (if i'm not there) stop the POS service on the PC, go to the email, and print the fax anyway because we need paper copies. So actually using one of the fax to PDF services is more of a pain then anything.
Hewlett Packard printers costing over $100 are supposed to all have Eprint now. The printer is Lan connected and there is an email account associated with that printer. The fax service could create a pdf and email it to the printer instead of a regular email account.
As an aside, for those worried about spam on their printer, the email account is pretty cryptic and you can change it at will. My idea for my ecommerce website is that when an order is received, I normally get an email copy of the order. Now I can configure the store with my printer email and the order is printed automatically.
Integraoligist:
Are there any other sites like GV that are capable of doing faxes?
Billt928, you say GV and Obi didnt receive faxes to good... what actually happened? Were the faxes all scrambled or what?
Lavarock7, looked up that HP ePrint, and that would work good for people ordering products online... at my old shop I had a Online Ordering page and the company that created it was just getting off the ground and used me as a free guinea pig. They made a simple printer software so that when someone ordered online, it shot an email, a text to me, and activated whatever printer that was connected to the PC with their simple printer software. So it was basically a redundancy program so if 2 options fail, you still have 1 leg left.
However, like I said, the people would order on-line. My new shop will not have online ordering, instead just a Catering print out that people will print, fill out, then fax in. I'd like to just have them scan and email it to me (which would fix all my problems) but there are still to many companies out there that can't comprehend how to email/scan. ::)
Billt928:
Quote from: Integraoligist on June 08, 2012, 06:57:59 am
Billt928, you say GV and Obi didnt receive faxes to good... what actually happened? Were the faxes all scrambled or what?
GV worked fine for me most of the time on faxes under 5 pages, but longer faxes always resulted in a fax error. GV faxing was night an day when compared to MagicJack Plus, (they were very slow and most failed) I still had an occasional issue with one page faxes with GV where the person faxing me said my fax never answered, and went to Google voicemail. I have had no issues at all with callcentric and faxing.
I have received 100+ page faxes without issue and extremely fast. I have not had a fax error since switching it over to callcentric.
Since I mostly have inbound faxes I got one of there dirt cheap unlimited DID's for $2.95 a month and pay per minute for outbound. you can also enable inbound faxes to be diverted to a email address if you are away and bypass your local fax machine.
Integraoligist:
Really? Thats actually great news for me, as my faxes will only be 1 page or possibly 2 if the company does an auto-cover letter
Also.i've been doing more research here on the forum and it looks like a lot of people are making GV and OBi work with their fax machine by just needing to change your fax machine to the slowest BAUD like 9200 or better yet the 7200 rate.
Did you change your Baud rates when working with the fax? I wonder if you can get over your 5 page limit if you drop it to 7200?
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