Faxing

You can fax documents via the enhanced voice service. Connect a fax machine to either “Voice Line” jack on the CommBox-ACU and dial the fax number as you would a voice call (see Making a Ship-to-Shore Call).

NOTE: Faxing requires 70 kbps bandwidth for sending and up to 90 kbps bandwidth for receiving. When fax and voice are used simultaneously, the bandwidth requirement increases to between 100 kbps and 170 kbps.

For extremely reliable faxing, KVH offers the UCH-250 fax server (see UCH-250 Fax Server). The UCH-250 avoids the industry-wide problem of dropped or incomplete faxes commonly associated with faxing over Voice over IP (VoIP) connections.