-=> Nick Andre wrote to Shawn Highfield <=-

 NA> I'm a huge fan of Virtualbox. What I'd LOVE to see is someone writing a
 NA> fully functional virtual modem, that would use VOIP telephone service.
 NA> If someone were able to do that, I can virtualize the entire BBS and
 NA> move it to a cloud VPS and effectively shut down a noisy server,
 NA> eliminate some costs, etc.

It'll never work due to the inherent problems converting to analog to
digital.  There's always signal/information loss during the conversion and
an analog modem is just too sensitive to information loss.

It's why it's recommended never to use analog equipment on VoIP.

--Sean

 
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