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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