Q: Apple USB fax modem
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Jul 27, 2011 6:28 PMby La Corte Jester,I had no problems with the $11.49 solution. I plugged it in, went to my Fax preferences and it was right there waiting to be added without additional drivers or anything.
Sorry if I came off as kind of sharp with my last post. You're right, the goal is to fax, is it not? I guess as a computer tech I'm looking at it as "This piece of hardware isn't working... it needs to work" since most of the time when a user comes to me with a problem, me telling them to use something is usually not an answer they want to hear.
I'm sorry people are having an issue installing the other USB modem. I had no issues on my late 2006 Mac Pro at all.
Cheers,
Jack
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Jul 31, 2011 4:00 AMby edwardfromtoronto,Same problem here . But fixed it I had an old 56k v.92/v.44 modem I use to use with windows and comes with window drivers. For fun I tried and it worked!! no problem just had to delete the apple modem and added USB ACF Modem in print and scan preferences (that's what Lion was telling me what I plugged in). Tried and works better than Apple modem ( I am useing Magic Jack as phone line and with apple modem it was hit and miss and now with a windows base modem is 100% go figure??). The Modem is from Best Data, got it from best buy last year.
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Jul 31, 2011 12:26 PMby William Boyd, Jr.,tonefox wrote:
I am just totally amazed that companies are still communicating by fax. I honestly thought it was as dead as the telegraph.
Last month I had to send a request to a bank by fax. I suppose I could have sent it by paper mail, but they wouldn't accept the request by e-mail or online.
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Jul 31, 2011 1:14 PMby William Boyd, Jr.,The bank seems to be fairly modern. In fact, if it has a physical branch office I don't know about it. I imagine it was the specialized nature of my request that caused them to want it by fax or mail. The point it, there is still a role for faxing in today's world.
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Jul 31, 2011 1:28 PMby Jeff Mark,That is the point, to be sure. It's been my experience that (e.g.) many heath-care-oriented services, for confidentiality reasons, don't do e-mail. Also, there are, apparently, occasions where a signature sent by fax is accepted as equivalent to an original signature, not so for scanned-and-e-mailed.
And some of us are just old, um, fuddy-duddies (the site auto-censor didn't like what I put the first time). What're you gonna do?
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Jul 31, 2011 1:37 PMby Jeff Mark,faxSTF was supported for Snow Leopard, it's unclear from what I've found whether a Lion version is in the works and if so will it provide Apple USB Modem support (no reason it couldn't). It is/was a great product, that offered much more sophisticated fax management than MacOS X by itself. Might be worth keeping an eye out for, if you need fax support on your Lion-Mac.
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Aug 1, 2011 10:15 AMby RandyChev,Jeff Mark wrote:
heath-care-oriented services, for confidentiality reasons, don't do e-mail. Also, there are, apparently, occasions where a signature sent by fax is accepted as equivalent to an original signature, not so for scanned-and-e-mailed.
Exactly. And for your OWN security you should use fax or encrypted files via email to send personal information such as social security numbers. Until email is as easy to use as faxing for secure transfer of confidential documents, I'm affraid faxes are here to stay. (To stay on topic...) I just wish Apple realized that!
