Faxing with Magic Jack Phone

How do I configure my Fax services to use my Magic Jack Phone instead of a
standard phone modem? I am a fairly competent computer user in general, but
am a completely innocent babe in the woods when it comes to this function.
Please be gentle.

Sometimes it's better to just get the pain over with and rip the bandage
off quickly.

Magic Jack is designed to allow your computer and broadband connection
to substitute for a phone line. A fax/dial up modem is designed to be a
SLOW substitute for broadband and a fax machine (fortunately that
function operates at full speed). Pretty much opposite functions. The
facsimile functions of Windows (and most other facsimile software)
wouldn't know how to use the Magic Jack as a fax modem, even if such
function is electronically feasible.

I don't know if the signal processing Magic Jack utilizes maintains
enough fidelity to allow a fax machine to operate through it. In the
event that it is (considering it such would be a gamble) fax function
would probably require the installation of a Fax modem (internal ones
were at one time CHEAP) and a modular phone connection between the fax
modem and the Magic Jack hardware.

Better probability of success using an on-line fax relay service. Google
"fax over Internet" (use the quotes).

Magic Jack has an extensive FAQ on their website.
http://www.magicjack.com/2/faq/

Part is here:

Your Question

Can I send and receive faxes using magicJack?

Answer

SOMETIMES.

We do not officially support using faxing with magicJack.

Please try the following steps to use magicJack with your fax (contact your
fax manufacturer for details):

Turn off error correction on your fax machine or program
Set the fax machine or program to use the slowest speed available
Increase the speed, checking at each speed that faxes work

i've done this with winfax,
all you need to do is plug the telephone cable end of the magic jack into
the back of the line-in of your fax modem, and voila...you can send
faxes...mileage may vary as VoIP for faxing isn't always reliable. You may
have to adjust settings in the fax software in regards to transmission
speed, flow control etc.

[Gurutech2010]

It is a very simple process. Connect your telephone cable, (RJ-11) coming-out of the magicjack; and connect the other end to a fax machine. That is the simplest way to do it. Telephones lines are known as P.O.T.S., (phone old telephone system) and to communicate they use dials,tones and noises that you will hear when you send a fax. Well,all of those that I have mentioned translate the communications in codes. The word modem comes from a complex word that means; modulation and demodulation. In other words; modulations is a kind related with digital; and demodulation related with analog. A signal coming from a computer comes digital and then it will be converted as analog; and then the same process backwards, (ANALOG TO DIGITAL) this is knowing also in communications as a handshake. The modems will get in accord, and try to decide the speed to transmit the fax. 14400 bps is a very common one in this case, but the 9600 bps is still in use, and others depending the quality and how new is the faxing machine. Enjoy, and I hope that this will work for you. By the way; you can fax-out to another magicjack. And remember, is you are talking in your phone and you listen distortion your bandwith,( internet speed) it is too slow. Or, you need to change your through-put speed.
Last but not least, if you travel; bring the magicjack to anywhere you go. Why? If you have an Internet connection available; you will be available to talk like home. Just because, this device uses a technology call Voice-over-ip; that uses packets of information through the Internet and your call will be local. That is what your phone company does not wants for you to know. Thank you ;very much, and that the God of the Heavens will bless you,