Sarpek -> Douglas Connor wrote:
 S> Re: Dial-up BBSs

 >>>> I still have the 885-6386 line but nothing is there to answer it not
 >>>> 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 only
 >> one
 S>>> little
 S>>> problem, it's not super important, almost hardly worth mensioning,
 >> right?
 S>>> Well, I don't even know if I should ask, it seems to minor that I
 >> shouldn
 S>>> but, here goes.  I could set my modem to dial that number but being I
 S>>> live in
 S>>> Montana, and I don't know where you live, I don't think I'd
 >> actually reac
 S>>> your modem.  Could I have that extra set of numbers one calls an
 >> Area Cod
 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.

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

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

 S>      Thanks again sysop dude, and chat with everyone later...

Should we take bets on how long this modem node takes to crash ?
its been up for around 24 hours now.
It's in a cmd shell in win xp.

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