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How fast is internet fax? Internet faxes can take from 3 to 20 minutes to go from your email to the recipient's fax machine. You may ask why does it take so long for an Internet fax to go to the fax machine. After all when you send a fax from a fax machine it comes out on the other fax machine almost instantly! This requires some explanation. How Internet Fax works- When you send a fax via an Internet fax provider they first receive your email, then they need to turn it and the attachment (if you're sending one) and turn it into a "fax" so the fax machine can accept it. (this is part of what makes Internet faxes legal) . Then they have to dial out to the fax machine you want to send to. What you don't know since you're not standing there is how many times the Internet fax provider has to try to send the fax due to busy signals, paper out and so forth. Why do incoming Internet faxes take so long? After receiving yoru fax the Internet fax provider needs to turn it into a PDF (Portable Document Format from Adobe) since almost every PC on the plan. Then it has to fire up an email system to send it to you as an attachment. The conversion usually only takes a few minutes depending on the time of day, how busy the Internet fax provider is, how many "ports" they have, and the whims of the Internet which all email is subject too. Why Internet faxes are FASTER than using a fax machine! One day last year we tested sending a 5 page document via a fax machine vs. Internet fax. To fax it with the fax machine we had to print the document, get it from the pringer, walk it to the fax machine (hopefully no one else is there!), load the pager, input the number, wait for it to finish (hopefully it did not jam or get a busy) then walk back to our desks. It took over 7 minutes! With Internet fax I attached the document to an email, typed in an address and hit send. It took less than 30 seconds and I didn't have to get up!
Don't even get me started on the cost savings! Two of the Internet fax providers we recommend are RapidFax with a FREE 30 day trial! |
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