Does anyone know how to use the new Verizon Wireless internet broadband modem (USB720) to send and receive FAXes? I have WIN XP PRO SR2 with the latest UPDATES and have installed windows proprietary fax software.

The modem has its own telephone number and I have been told by 2 Verizon Wireless sales people that it can work with FAX, but no one seems to know how.

Any help would be appreciated.

Badgenut :-/The sales people are completely ignorant. This is a digital (broadband) modem. Fax requires an analogue (telephone) modem.

Your broadband splitter separates your phone line into two "streams" - analogue for voice/fax (i.e. normal telephone use) and digital for broadband use. Your USB720 is plugged into the digital stream so there's no way it could send a fax in the conventional way. Your options are either 1. buy a normal analogue modem (which you can use simultaneously with the broadband modem) or 2. use (e.g.) an email-to-fax gateway. That's normally a paid service - see Google for more info.

If you WANT to send and receive a lot of faxes, you might think about buying a dedicated fax machine.

The moral of this story is never listen to sales people. Always come here first.