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    From Warpslide@21:3/110.1 to All on Saturday, July 18, 2020 19:42:37
    Hi All,

    I've been playing around with SEXPOTS and seem to have a working dial-up connection to Mystic.

    I pulled an old laptop out which had a built-in modem and was able to use Putty to dial in. ANSI doesn't look great in Putty but it worked!

    Does anyone have a modem & willing to try dialing in? The number is 1-289-424-5277 which apparently spells BUY-GAG-JARS.... *shrugs*

    Right now I had the baud rate set to 9600, but I'll experiment with trying to increase that & see what I can squeeze out of it.

    Jay

    ... I used to have a life, now I have a modem.

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  • From Warpslide@21:3/110 to All on Saturday, July 18, 2020 21:14:21
    On 18 Jul 2020, Warpslide said the following...

    I pulled an old laptop out which had a built-in modem and was able to
    use Putty to dial in. ANSI doesn't look great in Putty but it worked!

    TIL that Syncterm supports modems!

    Right now I had the baud rate set to 9600, but I'll experiment with
    trying to increase that & see what I can squeeze out of it.

    I can get a stable connection at 31,200, so I've up'ed the baud rate to
    38,400 for the modem. I'm typing this on an old laptop over dial-up.

    Both lines are VoIP through voip.ms connected to my 2 port ATA. The ATA is using G711 uLaw with all echo cancellation turned off. SEXPOTS answers the call and then forwards it to telnet on the local machine.

    So far I've noticed no line noise/artifacts on the screen & haven't had a dropped call so far. This seems to be very stable, I'm impressed (and
    perhaps easily amused...)

    Jay

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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to Warpslide on Sunday, July 19, 2020 14:45:00
    On 07-18-20 19:42, Warpslide wrote to All <=-

    Hi All,

    I've been playing around with SEXPOTS and seem to have a working
    dial-up connection to Mystic.

    Cool! :)

    Does anyone have a modem & willing to try dialing in? The number is 1-289-424-5277 which apparently spells BUY-GAG-JARS.... *shrugs*

    I have to dig out one or two of my modems. :(

    Right now I had the baud rate set to 9600, but I'll experiment with
    trying to increase that & see what I can squeeze out of it.

    Good luck, hope it works. I am toying with setting up a modem myself. :)

    Jay

    ... I used to have a life, now I have a modem.

    Haha, rather appropriate for this post. ;)


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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to Warpslide on Sunday, July 19, 2020 14:48:00
    On 07-18-20 21:14, Warpslide wrote to All <=-

    On 18 Jul 2020, Warpslide said the following...

    I pulled an old laptop out which had a built-in modem and was able to
    use Putty to dial in. ANSI doesn't look great in Putty but it worked!

    TIL that Syncterm supports modems!

    Might have to drag out an old comms program. :)

    Right now I had the baud rate set to 9600, but I'll experiment with
    trying to increase that & see what I can squeeze out of it.

    I can get a stable connection at 31,200, so I've up'ed the baud rate to 38,400 for the modem. I'm typing this on an old laptop over dial-up.

    Nice! :)

    Both lines are VoIP through voip.ms connected to my 2 port ATA. The
    ATA is using G711 uLaw with all echo cancellation turned off. SEXPOTS answers the call and then forwards it to telnet on the local machine.

    Awesome, well done. Getting good speeds there too.

    So far I've noticed no line noise/artifacts on the screen & haven't had
    a dropped call so far. This seems to be very stable, I'm impressed
    (and perhaps easily amused...)

    I'm happy for you. I suspected by using G.711, you could get decent bitrates, provided the underlying Internet connection is stable with low jitter and packet loss.


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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to Vk3jed on Monday, July 20, 2020 02:23:00
    I have to dig out one or two of my modems. :(

    Got another one here to keep it company, might even have an AC supply to fire it up.

    Spec


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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to Spectre on Monday, July 20, 2020 20:14:00
    On 07-20-20 02:23, Spectre wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    I have to dig out one or two of my modems. :(

    Got another one here to keep it company, might even have an AC supply
    to fire it up.

    All of my modems and supplies should be together, wherever that is. :)


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  • From Blue White@21:4/134 to Warpslide on Monday, July 20, 2020 14:18:45
    Warpslide wrote to All <=-

    On 18 Jul 2020, Warpslide said the following...

    I pulled an old laptop out which had a built-in modem and was able to
    use Putty to dial in. ANSI doesn't look great in Putty but it worked!

    TIL that Syncterm supports modems!

    Sorry what does TIL mean? :)



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  • From Warpslide@21:3/110.1 to Blue White on Monday, July 20, 2020 16:26:14
    *** Quoting Blue White from a message to Warpslide ***

    Sorry what does TIL mean? :)

    TIL = Today I Learned

    I got it from the Reddit community "Today I Learned (TIL)":

    https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/

    Jay

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  • From Arelor@21:2/138 to Blue White on Monday, July 20, 2020 16:46:08
    Re: Re: Dial-up Test
    By: Blue White to Warpslide on Mon Jul 20 2020 02:18 pm

    Sorry what does TIL mean? :)

    TIL -> Today I Learned

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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to Blue White on Tuesday, July 21, 2020 08:11:00
    Sorry what does TIL mean? :)

    Adjective, related to a pil, but slightly less annoying.

    alternatively....

    Most of one of those things used in stores to put money in ;)

    Spec


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  • From Blue White@21:4/134 to Warpslide on Tuesday, July 21, 2020 15:52:01
    Warpslide wrote to Blue White <=-

    *** Quoting Blue White from a message to Warpslide ***

    Sorry what does TIL mean? :)

    TIL = Today I Learned

    Oh wow I did not know that Syncterm could do POTS calls. TIL something too!
    <GRIN>


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