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Relay Broadcast on Your Brother Machine

Set Up Relay Broadcast on Your Brother Machine

Related Models: MFC-J5945DW

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.

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1. Internet-available fax machine

2. The Internet

3. Your Brother Machine

4. Telephone line

5. Fax machine

1. Start your web browser.

2. 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

3. If the machine prompts you for a password, type it, and then click

4. Click the Fax tab.

5. Click the Relay Function menu in the left navigation bar and configure the following settings:

• 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

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