Re: Re: BBS's
  By: Nick Andre to Derek M on Sat Feb 06 2010 15:21:18

 > 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. :)
 
 > 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.

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