Subj : A little help...
To   : Sean Dennis
From : Mike Luther
Date : Wed Jul 26 2006 04:10 am

Well, you sure confirmed Peter's answer!

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

SD> Not unless you use ISDN.

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

Well, 'I Still Don't Know', ISDN, grin, isn't available over all that much of
the phone grid here even yet.  And DSL isn't available in virtually anywhere in
the rural areas around our area yet.  And fat chance it will be, so the phoneco
tells me, sigh.



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