I have a USB V.everything modem, the big black one. Has anyone had
any luck using and old modem on VOIP? You would think there would be something to convert VOIP to POT.
I have a USB V.everything modem, the big black one. Has anyone had
any luck using and old modem on VOIP? You would think there would be something to convert VOIP to POT.
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The problem with running a dialup modem via VoIP is that digigal, a la VoI doesn't allow for the full signal bandwidth that analog does so you're be restricted to about 2400BPS ("baud") at best. Some have been able to get but that's not a common thing.
The problem with running a dialup modem via VoIP is that digigal, a la
VoIP,
doesn't allow for the full signal bandwidth that analog does so you're be restricted to about 2400BPS ("baud") at best. Some have been able to get more
but that's not a common thing.
I am actually actively working on this project right now. So far not sure
if
the Grandstream HT802 is going to get the job done or not. I cannot even keep
a 9600 baud connection alive for more than a minute or so like I could with
On my older Vonage box, I can maintain a 9600 baud connection pretty
well. Not having a much luck on a Grandstream HT802 I'm working on
right now... trying to tweak the settings to see if I can improve it
any ;)
I would just have though with all the work being done with digital
in the HAM community you would think there would be a way.
After all there is no real need to do it, it's just nostalgic, and
that is not much of a reason to start a project, I guess.
Sean Dennis wrote to ray <=-
You can still get copper lines, usually through a CLEC. Many
businesses and goverment users have to use copper lines; it's the
regular customersa that get the shaft.
I am actually actively working on this project right now. So far not sure
if
the Grandstream HT802 is going to get the job done or not. I cannot even keep
a 9600 baud connection alive for more than a minute or so like I could with
Are you testing VOIP to VOIP or VOIP to POT?
It's not so much the want to do it, it's overcoming the laws of physics.
You can still get copper lines, usually through a CLEC. Many businesses
and
goverment users have to use copper lines; it's the regular customersa that get
the shaft.
07 Sep 26 21:34, you wrote to me:
On my older Vonage box, I can maintain a 9600 baud connection pretty well. Not having a much luck on a Grandstream HT802 I'm working on right now... trying to tweak the settings to see if I can improve it any ;)
I can't get a copper POTS line here unless I go through a CLEC. Once I start working and can afford it, I'm dusting off one of my USR v.everything external Couriers (the big black modems) and putting a dialup line. My BBS also supports PPP connections so that would be fun to try if there's interest. Back when I disd have a dialup line, I actually had a lot of callers using that line.
I have several downlinks who want to use POTS with my stsyem, interestingly enough.
So what your saying is, a ATA can convert digital to analog to ring
a phone and it good enough for human voice, but fails providing what
the modem need to function at high baud. That makes sense.
There is some info out there about ATA's and fax working but I suppose
fax being a low baud device is why.
Any idea what the going rate is for a POT line these days?
lists places where they're ripping it out, or have already. AT&T apparently intends to remove almost 100% of their footprint by the end
of 2029.
You can still get copper lines, usually through a CLEC. Many businesses
and
goverment users have to use copper lines; it's the regular customersa that get
the shaft.
Any idea what the going rate is for a POT line these days?
It's because the feds stopped the gravy train to maintain the copper lines AT&T quit supporting them.
However, there's specialty equipment like DataRemote's POTS In A Box or Oo AirDial that work via 4G LTE/5G and because they're engineered to support legacy DTMF tones and fax/modem transmissions for critical life-safety systems, they handle modem handshakes much better than standard consumer V
So we're not completely screwed...yet.
I'm glad to be learning there may still be other options for
alternatives, and I hope they are financially feasible for us... and I'm really glad to see that I am not the only one interested in these dialup modems. They are such an integral part of my early love into computers.
Hello Bo,
07 Sep 26 21:34, you wrote to me:
On my older Vonage box, I can maintain a 9600 baud connection pretty
I can't get a copper POTS line here unless I go
through a CLEC. Once I start
working and can afford it, I'm dusting off one of my
USR v.everything external
Couriers (the big black modems) and putting a dialup line. My BBS also supports PPP connections so that would be fun to try
if there's interest.
Back when I disd have a dialup line, I actually had a
lot of callers using
that line.
I have several downlinks who want to use POTS with my
stsyem, interestingly
enough.
-- Sean
... What do mermaids use to wash their fins? Tide.
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Around $60 or so monthly here in NE Tennessee.
might be kind of neat. either that or i've recreated everything awful about using voicemail ;)
AT&T refused to give me a POTS line, too... and it irritates me
because I think mine is still connected to something. When I pick up
my phones, I get a ground sound.
That is crazy! That's more then my cell phone bill. Looks like they
want to price the regular consumer away from POTS.
interestingly (to me at least) when i was early into BBSes there was a loc phone service for kids that had a touch tone menu and games and things you could play. you'd basically call up and press like 1 to traverse the dunge and then use the numbers to go different directions or try different metho to kill the dragon.. or whatever. there were a whole bunch of different activities.
AT&T refused to give me a POTS line, too... and it irritates me because I think mine is still connected to something. When I pick up my phones, I get a ground sound.
Probably a bad ground; those were/are very common. You new when your like multiplexed when you kept connexting at 21600 BPS too. Try putting a multimeter on your line and see if you have AC current on it.
That's business only. Consumer copper linesa do not exist at all in East Tennessee.
ray wrote to All <=-
Any idea what the going rate is for a POT line these days?
Alexander Grotewohl wrote to Sean Dennis <=-
https://rcntechnologies.com/pots-shutdown-tracker/
lists places where they're ripping it out, or have already. AT&T apparently intends to remove almost 100% of their footprint by the end
of 2029.
Alexander Grotewohl wrote to Bo Holt <=-
might be kind of neat. either that or i've recreated everything awful about using voicemail ;)
Sean Dennis wrote to Alexander Grotewohl <=-
The inventor of voicemail is on record stating how he wishes he'd never invented voicemail. <G>
Sean Dennis wrote to Bo Holt <=-
Probably a bad ground; those were/are very common. You new when your
like was multiplexed when you kept connexting at 21600 BPS too. Try putting a multimeter on your line and see if you have AC current on it.
Bo Holt wrote to Sean Dennis <=-
I've got to find my meter. I also need to check my DMARC to see if
there is still a line out to the pole. My house is huge and built in
1928 so there are about a hundred years' worth of old phone wiring
(face palm).
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