Subj : Re: Modem/Dialup options for Mystic
To   : Warpslide
From : dejavu
Date : Tue Jun 16 2020 14:17:51

On 16 Jun 2020, Warpslide said the following...
 
 Wa> On 15 Jun 2020, dejavu said the following...
 Wa>  
 Wa>  de> Are there any native Modem/Dialup support options available for Mysti
 Wa> 
 Wa> I was looking at trying to get this working in Windows.  I came across a
 Wa> utility aptly named Dialup-To-Telnet, which also referenced another
 Wa> piece of software named Argus.
 Wa> (https://www.randm.ca/bbs/dialup-to-telnet)
 Wa> 

Hey Warpslide,
Thank you for the recommendation.  I will check this out as well.

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

One suggestion I have is to use 1200 baud for your initial testing, it seems
to work very well.

Wa> That's when I decided that even if I could get the software configured, I
Wa> wouldn't know what kind of phone line the other side would be using or  
Wa> what the phone network looked like in between.
 Wa> 
 Wa> At work we have a postage machine that worked over phone lines, and it
 Wa> suddenly stopped be able to reload postage one day.  It turns out the
 Wa> fiber-optic phone company we used switched something on their end that
 Wa> caused it to stop working.  No warning, no notice, they just flicked a
 Wa> switch one day to break it.  Our fax machines still worked, but not this
 Wa> piece of equipment.
 Wa>

This was most likely caused by a codec change on the VoIP equipment.  I've
found the best codec to use for VoIP lines which disbles compression.  More
to come on the compression topic when I get my dedicated line in for dialup
users in the coming days.

Wa> For some reason the company decided to get a traditional copper POTS line
Wa> instead of replacing the postage machine with one that worked over the  Wa>
internet. It's worked fine ever since. 
Wa>   Wa> I'm not about to pay $46.95
for one copper POTS line from Bell for
my  Wa> BBS.  
Wa> 

The only comment I have is when the internet goes down that copper POTS line
will still be up during war :)   You'll still have a BBS online and passing
mail if there are dial-up modem options on the mail hubs :)

  Wa> Jay
 Wa> 
 Wa> --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/06/11 (Windows/32)
 Wa>  * Origin: Northern Realms BBS | bbs.nrbbs.net | Binbrook, ON (21:3/110)

I'll be in touch with you when I have my dedicated VoIP number and modem
attached to my BBS.  I've built all the dialup testing around my old PCBoard
BBS that answers the modem flawlessy and a POTS telephone simulator and a
VoIP/Asterisks system to ensure that everything will work.   When it's all
said and done I am going to perhaps try to find someone to publish an article
on the subject and configuration settings.

-Dejavu

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A45 2020/02/18 (Linux/32)
 * Origin: 1984 BBS [1984bbs.net] Washington, DC (21:3/114)

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