Originally Posted by
Jaimito Cartero
For some reason, Cox has a much cheaper price if you only have one phone in the bundle compared to two. So this one fax line adds $30 a month to my bill. I'd like to use Ooma to connect to my fax machine. I wouldn't mind being able to use the free domestic minutes, but if I called someone and the caller ID listed the fax number, they might call me back on it, instead of my normal business number. Can I have a different number listed for CID purposes?
If my high speed (25 meg) internet service was perfect, I'd use it for my main number. However, it always seems that I'm down for an hour, or two ever month, and then there is a day long outage every year or two. If it's on the weekend, I wouldn't care much, but during the week it would cost me big.
And if the whole service shut down, then I'd be SOL.
It sounds like you have plenty of bandwidth, but you should know that VoIP is not a great solution for faxing in situations where there are any flaws in the broadband connection. VoIP's little blips and burps that are slightly bothersome in a voice connection can wreak havoc on a fax connection. I used to do tech support for a VoIP company and this issue came up a lot.
Have you considered getting a fax machine that supports distinctive ringing and just let your fax line share your voice line from its own number? I have distinctive ring service from AT&T for my fax line for a couple of bucks a month (less that $5, I forget the exact amount).