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Set Up Relay Broadcast on Your Brother Machine
A Relay Broadcast is when your Brother machine receives a message over the Internet and then relays it to another fax machine using conventional telephone lines. If you must fax a document over a long distance or abroad, use the "relay broadcast" function to save the communication fee.
- Internet-available fax machine
- The Internet
- Your Brother Machine
- Telephone line
- Fax machine
- Start your web browser.
- Type "https://machine's IP address" in your browser's address bar (where "machine's IP address" is the machine's IP address).
For example:
https://192.168.1.2
- If required, type the password in the Login field, and then click Login.
The default password to manage this machine’s settings is located on the back of the machine and marked "Pwd". - Go to the navigation menu, and then click .Start from
, if the navigation menu is not shown on the left side of the screen. - Configure settings as needed.
- Relay Broadcast Function
Set the Relay Broadcast Function to On.
- Relay Domain
Configure your machine's domain name on the machine that will broadcast the document to the conventional fax machine. To use your machine as a relay broadcast device, you must specify the trusted domain name (the portion of the name after the "@" sign) on the machine. Use care in selecting a trusted domain: any user on a trusted domain will be able to send a relay broadcast. You can register up to five domain names.
- Relay Broadcast Report
Specify whether or not you want a report to print after the machine completes the relay broadcast.
- When finished, click Submit.