http://www.vonage-forum.com/forums.html Vonage VoIP News, Reviews And Discussion - Forums en-us Copyright © 2007 Vonage VoIP Forum http://backend.userland.com/rss http://www.vonage-forum.com/images/topics/vonage_forum.jpg http://www.vonage-forum.com 90 15 Vonage VoIP Forum webmaster@vonage-forum.com webmaster@vonage-forum.com Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:58:35 +0000 60 http://www.vonage-forum.com/ftopic23636.html http://www.vonage-forum.com/ftopic23636.html#128019 Considering it would cost $10/mo to be able to send/receive faxes using an e-mail service, the cost advantage of using Vonage would be significantly reduced making me rethink staying with Vonage. I have been a very happy customer for three years. I'm using MaxEmail.com for inbound fax service. There was a $10 setup fee, and it cost me $24 for a whole year. This means it was about $3/mo the first year, and $2/mo thereafter. This gets me up to 100 pages/mo of inbound faxes. With the $24/yr plan you don't get a number in your area code, but that wasn't a big deal to me. Most people that ever fax me are faxing long distance anyway. For outbound faxes, I use faxzero.com. They allow two free faxes (3 page limit) per day. That covers the vast majority of my faxing needs. If I need to fax more than 3 pages, or send more than 2 faxes a day, I use the vonage v-fax feature, or the outbound feature on my maxemail.com account at about 5 cents a page. Having said all that, I'd be willing to drop the $2/mo maxemail in favor of the $10/mo vonage fax line, if vonage would offer the option to receive faxes as pdf email attachments. Scanning documents to send with efax, maxemail, faxzero, or any other web based service is a hassle. Much easier to stick them in the fax machine, enter the number and click send. I don't want to receive hard copy faxes. I can print them if I need to, but I want the ability to access them from any computer, which means they need to be in my email. This way I can have people fax me no matter where I am. I refuse to pay $10 for the fax line, and then still have to pay for the fax to email service on top of that. So I won't be forwarding to a fax server as you do. ]]> Vonage http://www.vonage-forum.com/ftopic23659.html http://www.vonage-forum.com/ftopic23659.html#128018 VoIP Feature Wish List http://www.vonage-forum.com/ftopic22243.html http://www.vonage-forum.com/ftopic22243.html#128017 I agree when using efax, Onesuite or maxemail, you need to scan your document to fax it BUT take note that most documents now (pictures, resumes, files) are already in digital form. To be honest I got more pictures in my PC than all pictures (hard copy) I had for my entire life. Same thing with other files/documents. I only had to scan twice since I started using Onesuite Fax Plus 2 months ago compared with the almost hundred pages I've sent that's already on my PC. Yes, most documents are already in digital form, but most of those get sent as email attachments. Usually when I need to fax something it's something I had to fill out or sign. It would be nice after signing a document to be able to drop it in my fax machine, punch in a number, and then click send. I'd pay the extra $9.99/mo for that convenience if I could receive the faxes as pdf files. As a matter of fact, I sometimes use this as a more convenient scanning method. Rather than scanning a document and saving it as a pdf, it is easier to fax it to myself and receive it as a pdf attachment in my email. ]]> VoIP Feature Wish List http://www.vonage-forum.com/ftopic23658.html http://www.vonage-forum.com/ftopic23658.html#128016 Vonage http://www.vonage-forum.com/ftopic23242.html http://www.vonage-forum.com/ftopic23242.html#128015 VoIP Feature Wish List http://www.vonage-forum.com/ftopic22243.html http://www.vonage-forum.com/ftopic22243.html#128014 The problem with onesuite or efax or any of the other online faxing services is that you have to go through the hassle of scanning the document before you can fax it. I would be willing to pay for the vonage line if I could send outbound faxes from my fax machine with it, but have inbound faxes emailed to me as a pdf. I don't want inbound faxes going to my fax machine because: 1) I don't want to print most of them. I'd rather have the information on my PC where I can view it whenever I want and 2) I want to be able to receive the fax wherever I have email. Right now I use an online faxing service (maxemail) that costs me $24/yr. I'd gladly pay the $9.99/mo Vonage wants if I could still receive my faxes as email pdf attachments. I agree when using efax, Onesuite or maxemail, you need to scan your document to fax it BUT take note that most documents now (pictures, resumes, files) are already in digital form. To be honest I got more pictures in my PC than all pictures (hard copy) I had for my entire life. Same thing with other files/documents. I only had to scan twice since I started using Onesuite Fax Plus 2 months ago compared with the almost hundred pages I've sent that's already on my PC. ]]> VoIP Feature Wish List http://www.vonage-forum.com/ftopic21514.html http://www.vonage-forum.com/ftopic21514.html#128013 Vonage http://www.vonage-forum.com/ftopic23658.html http://www.vonage-forum.com/ftopic23658.html#128012 Vonage http://www.vonage-forum.com/ftopic23657.html http://www.vonage-forum.com/ftopic23657.html#128011 Vonage http://www.vonage-forum.com/ftopic23564.html http://www.vonage-forum.com/ftopic23564.html#128010 Vonage Canada