Hello Daryl!

** 15.09.19 - 13:01, Daryl Stout wrote to MIKE POWELL:

 DS>  As for cellphone service, I'm with Straight Talk, and it's the best
 DS>cellphone package I've ever had...$50 a month with tax, and I get 25
 DS>Gigabytes of data, before it gets throttled down..

That's a *very* nice package.  The closest I can get is $40 for 5GB until  
it gets throttled down - with luckymobile.ca.


 DS>  But back to the dial-up, those modems only really work with analog
 DS>lines, and not with VoIP lines. Yet, I wonder what the fax machines are
 DS>working with...since practically all the old analog lines are now
 DS>digital/VoIP.

Is that what they call a "dry loop" line?   Here, a dry loop has to be  
specifically ordered, otherwise a new phone line is a real POTS line.


 DS>If there was a way to make that work, I'd put dial-up
 DS>access back on the BBS...but I saw a comment from Rob Swindell (aka
 DS>digital man), author of Synchronet, noting that "28.8 and 33.6 aren't as
 DS>fast as you remember them".

Even 33.6 would seem like a crawl.  You are best to put the idea of a bbs  
via dial-up out of your mind.  ;)


  ../|ug

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