Subj : Weekly nodelist report on noteworthy changes (278)
To   : Michiel van der Vlist
From : Dmitry Protasoff
Date : Sun Oct 06 2024 19:30:03

Hello, Michiel!

Sunday October 06 2024 15:04, you wrote to me:

 DP>> Sorry, I was a bit busy! Now I am ready to call ;)
 DP>> BTW, at the moment I am receiving a new call every 20 minutes. My
 DP>> uplink is calling every time new echomail arrives.

 MV> Hmmm... local calls are free?

Yes! Not free, actually, but unlimited for fixed price.

 DP>> He've got 9 modem lines, I now have only 8, because 2 modems died
 DP>> during extensive tests :( But I'll replace them soon ;)

 MV> I would not know where to obtain a modem these days. They are extinct
 MV> here.

Ebay! :)

 MV> But you are not going to have me play along. Technically modem over

It's up to you ;)

 MV> VOIP is a senseless double conversion. You convert a digital signal to
 MV> audio. And then you encode the audio to a digotal signal to transport
 MV> it. At the other end you do the reverse. It is like sitting on a horse
 MV> in a trailer that is towed by a car. It makes sense to do away with
 MV> the horse and the trailer and just use the car to go from A to B.

It's like HAM radio. Makes little sense if you have mobile phonem but it's still fun!

 MV> But if it makes you happy...

A bit :)

 DP>> It's just 18 hours trip to that location :)

 MV> Why can't you run the system at the location where you are?

Energy prices in the UK are too high and free space is very limited. It's also no longer possible to get a home phone and CSD has been disabled on UK GSM networks.
And my entire modem collection is still in Russia :) I only have two modems with me for remote tests.

 DP>> Too bad it's not possible to put multiple phone numbers in
 DP>> Nodelist.. I don't know why The Founding Fathers never thougth
 DP>> about this idea? It's so inconvenient.

 MV> Inconvenient for who? In the POTS age there never was a need. Phone

For me and my modem friends :)

 MV> lines were expensive and for most one line was enough. But in de POTS
 MV> age every decent phone company had the option to make multiple lines
 MV> reachable via one phone number.

 MV> VOIP has that possibility too.

What if I want connections to different phone companies?

 DP>> It's not POTS, actually. One of the lines is from a GPON box, 2
 DP>> are from GSM CSD, and the rest are from SIP. But it's still PSTN
 DP>> (because of the E.164 numbers involved), just not POTS.

 MV> Ok, it is not POTS, so it is not really going back to the roots. It is
 MV> just emulating the roots...  ;-)

It's "good enough" emulation :) You won't notice much difference from the software side.


Best regards,
             dp.

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