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MyFax Review: Internet Fax |
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| The price, interface and free 800-number make this a great choice for most consumers | |
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[Editor's Note: MyFax is offering 500 combined send and receive faxes per month to NextAdvisor visitors for the same price of $9.17/month, the usual price for only 100 send and 200 receive. There is no coupon code required to take advantage of this offer but you must click on a sign-up link from our site. Simply click on any MyFax link on NextAdvisor.com to take advantage of this limited time deal.]
Setup Setup is easy with MyFax. The first thing you do is decide if you want a toll-free or local number. The toll-free number comes at no cost to you, so there's really no reason not to choose it. Whether you pick toll-free or local, MyFax assigns you a number; you won't get to pick from different numbers as you can with some of the other Internet fax providers. User Interface MyFax's web interface is nice; in fact, we liked it more than eFax's. Since it relies on the popular PDF for fax attachments, you can open your faxes on virtually any machine without additional software. The downside is that by default, you do not have any markup or signature tools, unless they're included with your PDF viewer. If you're using a PC, you can use MyFax's Print-To-Fax assistant to send your faxes from any program that uses print drivers (which is pretty much all of them). It also provides an Email-to-Fax service, as do many of the other Internet fax sites. Additionally, faxing is supported on the Palm Treo and the Blackberry. We also like that MyFax has an easy mechanism for marking faxes as junk. You can then set your junk fax options to filter out faxes in the future that match certain criteria (such as phone number). Anyone who's been on the receiving end of nasty fax spam, will appreciate that. While many other fax services have a way to block junk, it's particularly well implemented here. MyFax was a bit slow on the transmission side, coming in last in our speed tests, averaging in at 3 minutes 35 seconds for delivery. Its average receiving time was 2 minutes 42 seconds. These times shouldn't be deal-breakers for most users. Pricing MyFax gives you 500 combined inbound and receive pages for $10.00 per month, though a year commitment will give you one month free (roughly $9.17 per month). This puts it on the cheaper end. Additional pages are 10 cents a piece. If you think you'll fax more than this, $15.00 per month will get you 1000 inbound and outbound pages. Like most Internet fax services, MyFax assumes one page takes a minute to transmit; a graphically complex page may take longer to send and can therefore count as two or more pages. Conclusion The included toll-free number will save you and your callers some cash, so that's something to take into account. A 30-day money back guarantee makes trying out MyFax pretty risk free. We think most users will like MyFax's balance of price, functionality, and plan. |
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| Annual Plan Price: | $9.17/mo |
| Free Trial: | 30-day free trial |
| Pages Included: | 500 combined receive and send per month |
| Additional Pages: | 10¢ per page |
| Send/Receive Times: | 2m 42s receive; 3m 35s send |
| Toll Free Number: | Free |
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