Subj : Weekly nodelist report on noteworthy changes (238)
To   : Marc Lewis
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Sat Aug 27 2022 16:26:45

Hello Marc,

On Friday August 26 2022 16:05, you wrote to me:

 ML> I utilised IRex up until roughly February,

That long? Irex has not been maitained for, I didn't keep track but it must be some two decades...

 ML> but its BinkP is so out of date that it cannot adequately handle
 ML> connects from binkd-like systems like the one in Synchronet.

Well, synchronet is not free of problems too..

 ML> Those problems disappeared completely when I switched over to a binkd
 ML> server (OS/2 version). IRex didn't provide any dial-up services for my
 ML> system.

Of course. Irex is an IP mailer. I used it in conjunction withIntermail. It worked fine as a combination for POTS/IP.

The main reason I dropped Irex is that it did not support IPv6 and it was never going to be updated. Add to tat that I did not need POTS any more and so I made the jump from AMA to BSO. I ditched Irex and I ditched InterMail. I never regretted it.

 ML> Binkley did (and still does.) The VOIP connections aren't as good as
 ML> the genuine copper pair over the Courier, where I could routinely do
 ML> 28.8 and 33.2kbps connections w/ no problem...

I switched from ADSL to cable around the turn of the century. At the same time I switched my voice line from the copper pair to VOIP over cable. I did not notice any degradation in quality when using it for what it was intended: voice telephony. Analog modem over VOIP still worked, but I never got more than 1*K or so. No problem, I only used the analog modem for an occasional test after I got Fido over IP.

 ML> But those days are indeed gone short of having a very high dollar VOIP
 ML> system - ain't 'gonna happen; I'll stick with the cheapie which can
 ML> double as an additional voice connection should my cell phone go on
 ML> the blitz.

Let's face it, Analog Modem over VOIP is a technical nonsicality. It is converting digital to analog followed by converted the analog signal to digital again. It is like putting a horse on a trailer behind a car to get from A to B. That is fine if you want to get a horse from A to B, but not if you want get he payload that the horse is carrying from A to B. You'd better dispense with the horse and the trailer and just use the car the move the payload.

Anyway, here in R28 both analog modem and ISDN are history.


Cheers, Michiel

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