Subj : A little help...
To   : Mike Luther
From : Sean Dennis
Date : Sun Jul 23 2006 01:16 am

Hello, Mike.

22 Jul 06 09:13, you wrote to me:

ML> the old BBS system game.  Have you ever tried using VOIP and
ML> 'standard' modem connections to the FidoNet stuff over VOIP?  I don't
ML> have VOIP here at the moment.  But I'd like to know what the answer to
ML> that question might be.  Could be an interesting fall-back down a long
ML> an lonely road at the other end of 'someplace' where the wolf has
ML> alrady eaten both Hansel and Gretal.

Analog modems will not work with my VoIP.  Not only did my provider tell me
that, I tried it.  The modem will not handshake properly.

ML> But as a last resort if nothing else game, I wonder if VOIP could be
ML> used to take the BBS game (Fido) to a place where curiously, only
ML> phone line support existed?  And thus pull the cost effectively to

Not unless you use ISDN.

Which is something I may do later to legally run the BBS on its own dedicated
bandwidth.

Later,
Sean

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