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 ...

A combination fax board and data modem available as an external unit that plugs into the serial port of the computer or as an expansion card for internal installation. It includes a switch that routes ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WHAT DO YOU do when the contract has to be returned today? Fax it. What do you do when the e-mail attachment got mangled in transit or simply never arrived? Fax it. What do you do when the manuscript ...

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 ...