Your router has many more functions than you imagine are there, without you using them, wasting all the benefits that you can get from this device. Beyond helping us with our Internet connections, your router can also be a NAS, a media center, the control point for connected devices in your home and much more. For example, did you know that you can send a fax from the router? Only if the model allows it.

This is one of the many advantages of buying your own router and not using the one that the operators offer as standard. To show this example, today, in our Getting to Know Networks by AVM section, we are going to teach you how to send a fax from the FRITZ!Box router.

How to send a fax from the FRITZ!Box router

This device has an integrated fax function, which allows us to be able to use this type of communication in a timely manner without having to spend money to send it from a store that offers this service, in addition to gaining privacy and comfort. Of course, it can also be used for more common shipments, if, for example, instead of using this router at home you have it in the office.

When you receive a fax, it is saved in the FRITZ!Box or on the USB connected to the router as if it were an email. You can also put the option to forward it to several recipients or even to another specific email address for this type of communication.

To do this, we just have to enter the menu, then the Fax option, which is located within the interface of your router. Now we need to give a name to the sender who will send the faxes from this device, as well as a phone number in Set up the fax function. Select the location where you want received faxes to be saved (USB, router…) and indicate if you want to redirect to an email address. And it would be ready.

Which routers support the fax feature?

There are many models on the market that offer this possibility of sending a fax from the router. Following the example that we have taken for this article, the AVM FRITZ! Box allows you to do it. We leave you below the direct link to your Amazon store, where you can see all the available products and the characteristics of each one of them.

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If sending and receiving faxes on the router is something important to you, make sure that the router you buy provides you with this service so that you can enjoy a much more complete, functional equipment with real added value for your life.

And you who thought that the router only served to connect to the internet. We hope you like these practical articles on the uses of networks and how to improve their function in our home and office. If you have any questions, you can write to us through our Twitter profile (@MrMoviliano).

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