Subj : RE: Weekly nodelist report on noteworthy changes (238)
To   : Michiel van der Vlist
From : Marc Lewis
Date : Fri Aug 26 2022 16:05:45

Hello Michiel.

<On 26Aug2022 22:25 Michiel van der Vlist (2:280/5555.1) wrote a message to Marc Lewis regarding Weekly nodelist report on noteworthy changes (238) >

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 MvdV> How many POTS (over IP) calls do you get? I supported POTS over
 MvdV> VOIP for a couple of years next to Fido over IP. But nobody
 MvdV> called. So when I did not have any calls for five years, and I
 MvdV> dropped Irex in favour of binkd, I used the opportuniy to ditch
 MvdV> POTS. Nobody complained. That was a decade ago. 

I utilised IRex up until roughly February, but its BinkP is so out of date
that it cannot adequately handle connects from binkd-like systems like the one
in Synchronet.  Those problems disappeared completely when I switched over to
a binkd server (OS/2 version). IRex didn't provide any dial-up services for my
system. Binkley did (and still does.) The VOIP connections aren't as good as
the genuine copper pair over the Courier, where I could routinely do 28.8 and
33.2kbps connections w/ no problem... But those days are indeed gone short of
having a very high dollar VOIP system - ain't 'gonna happen; I'll stick with
the cheapie which can double as an additional voice connection should my cell phone go on the blitz.

Best regards,
Marc

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