Steve Winn -> Sarpek wrote:
 SW> Re: Dial-up BBSs

 >> Re: Dial-up BBSs

 >>>>> I still have the 885-6386 line but nothing is there to answer
 >>>>> even a phone. I call it the telemaketers line 
 S>>>> I would love to try this out even as of right now, but I have onl
 S>>>> little
 S>>>> problem, it's not super important, almost hardly worth mensioning
 S>>>> Well, I don't even know if I should ask, it seems to minor that I
 S>>>> but, here goes.  I could set my modem to dial that number but bei
 S>>>> live in
 S>>>> Montana, and I don't know where you live, I don't think I'd actua
 S>>>> your modem.  Could I have that extra set of numbers one calls an
 S>>>> Please???  Thank you for the help.
 >>> Ok ok I found an extention and a phone jack with both lines to connect
 >>> it up.
 >>> node 1 should answer on 1-802-885-6386 up here in the snow.
 >>> I'm not real sure of the init string but it "should" answer.

 >>      Wow guys, that was something I hadn't done in probably 12-13
 >> years, back
 >> then all I wanted was my MTV (opps I mean my Internet).  But this was
 >> very
 >> cool, I used my VoIP phone line to call a BBS.  I got a 2400 bps
 >> connection,
 >> but that didn't matter, I was dial-up connected.

 >>      Has anyone else tried that (dial-up via VoIP)?  If so, what was the
 >> fastest connect speed obtained?  A friend of mine said it was
 >> imposible, but
 >> I shoed him...  

 SW> I think I was getting 24000 when I connected to Doug. But I lost the
 SW> connection
 SW> a couple times.
It looks like sarpek connected at 21600 noec then the modems droped to
2400 v42bis for the login.

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