Subj : Re: Serial Port: YouTube over Dialup
To   : Bob Worm
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Fri Oct 17 2025 07:50:14

-=> Bob Worm wrote to phigan <=-

 > It was definitely a thing, and people did it with ISDN and other types of
 > lines, too... but the ISP had to be set up to support it.

 BW> Yeah, link bonding works well if you know all of your connections land
 BW> on the same device at the head end, less so if you are dialing a
 BW> virtual number and hitting random devices all over the place.

 The ISDN era was fun, it was like having 2 smart phone lines. I had one
 going into the BBS, the other end connected to a Shiva LANRover at
 work. I could take calls on the first B channel, have them hunt to the
 second channel to take two callers, or nail both channels up to the LAN
 Rover to get 112kb/sec of internet goodness. I'd also discovered FTN
 via FTP, and could poll several times a day instead of dialing up to my
 local hub once a day.

 The "two callers" thing was purely academic - at that point I was
 getting one call a day.   :(

 
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