Subj : Re: Modem/Dialup options for Mystic
To   : dejavu
From : Warpslide
Date : Tue Jun 16 2020 10:22:07

On 15 Jun 2020, dejavu said the following...
 
 de> Are there any native Modem/Dialup support options available for Mystic? 

I was looking at trying to get this working in Windows.  I came across a
utility aptly named Dialup-To-Telnet, which also referenced another piece of
software named Argus. (https://www.randm.ca/bbs/dialup-to-telnet)

I didn't get too far as I couldn't even get the modems to connect let alone
pass it to the BBS.  I was using a cable phone line & a voip phone line
(ulaw) for testing.  I got a CONNECT 9600 once and then a bunch of garbage
after that.

That's when I decided that even if I could get the software configured, I
wouldn't know what kind of phone line the other side would be using or what
the phone network looked like in between.

At work we have a postage machine that worked over phone lines, and it
suddenly stopped be able to reload postage one day.  It turns out the
fiber-optic phone company we used switched something on their end that caused
it to stop working.  No warning, no notice, they just flicked a switch one
day to break it.  Our fax machines still worked, but not this piece of
equipment.

For some reason the company decided to get a traditional copper POTS line
instead of replacing the postage machine with one that worked over the
internet. It's worked fine ever since. 

I'm not about to pay $46.95 for one copper POTS line from Bell for my BBS.

Jay

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