Re: BBS nostalgia
  By: Sean Dennis to Kurt Weiske on Mon Jan 10 2011 05:11 pm

 > Analog modems won't work right over digital lines...at least in my experienc

 > However, if you DO have a true POTS line, yeah, set it up!  It's always anot
 > option and as you know from elsewhere, there are still POTS users around.  I
 > joked with someone from Micronet who pulls mail via POTS that I know it's 4 
 > when I hear the phone ring at night. 

Yeah, I was worried about that. I was a telecom manager in a former life and
worked out all the headroom needed for a modem carrier. Most telco muxing
equipment intended to cram more voice paths over copper lines didn't account
for the added frequency range of modems. Your call to aunt tillie sounded OK,
but your 56K v.everything modem would only get a 26400 connect, for example.

I miss the days of running the BBS off an ISDN line with a Motorola BitSurfr. I
could do extremely CLEAN analog calls on one B-Channel, dial out to the
internet to get my mail or surf on the other B-Channel, bond them both to get a
112kbps internet connection to my office, or take ISDN calls. Expensive,
though. Measured rate all day long.

--kW
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