>> What I have found to be -a little bit- more "reliable"
is BBS'ing over
 >Roger
 >> Home Phone, you know, the phone service thats over their own VOIP network.
 >> Since they are not routing any packets over the Internet, it tends to be a
 >b
 >> better.... better as in, you can connect at 9600 baud, lol.
 >
 >Yeah, that would make sense - but rather than subscribe to Rogers Home
 >Phone,
 >I'll just stick with my $50 per year Vbuzzer line. :)

Oh definately. I have the Rogers line strictly for PSTN dialup as the
¨promotion I got was good at the time. However, I would rather use
Magicjack ¨for it if the service was more reliable... though you cannot
have Canadian ¨numbers on it. So if I did that, the PSTN number is American
even though I ¨live in Toronto.

 >> I guess 9600 is good enough for "surfing" a BBS,
browsing file and message
 >> areas and all that, but not good enough for serious use like door games
 >and
 >> boards with big ansi screens and all that.
 >
 >I'm going to bang out a very plain and very pared-down low-ascii shell for
 >my
 >BBS for dialup users.  I get maybe one or two dialup calls each week and
 >want
 >to improve the experience (as much as possible) for those people suffering
 >under my 2400 baud limitation.  Big ANSI screens do indeed make a huge
 >difference in that situation.

Big time, I remember dialing BBS's at 2400 baud and big ansis just made me
¨want to hang up. I remember disabling Ansi emulation in my terminal
¨altogether just to bypass everything as a plain-ASCII or VT100 user.

Nick

--- SLMAIL v5.1  (#SLO409KEDG15G098)