Using Telnet, but setting speed to 2400 baud reddit / bbs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- brophyd · 2023-07-31 07:32 Is this possible? What’s the best way to simulate this old experience? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- IAmRootAtDBZ · 2023-07-31 07:40 Do you hate yourself? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- brophyd · 2023-07-31 07:43 Just for text purposes. Nothing more. Just miss the early bbs days and want to show it off. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- nhaines · 2023-07-31 08:11 That's just BBSing on hard mode today. (In any case, it entirely depends on your terminal software in several different ways, so you'd better start by telling us what operating system you're using, what terminal or console (if any) you're using, and what terminal software you're using.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- brophyd · 2023-07-31 12:27 I have access to windows, Linux, or Mac. What has the best terminal application that would allow you to modify the speed shown on screen? Is it just as simple as changing the speed or is there more to it? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- waftedfart · 2023-07-31 14:13 Gotta create a bottleneck, tighten a zip tie *really* tight on the ethernet cable. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- brophyd · 2023-07-31 14:43 Kind of like wrapping a network cable multiple times around a cell phone to increase WiFi range?! Haha ---------------------------------------------------------------------- electronicchicken · 2023-07-31 15:04 SyncTERM (and probably others) has baud rate emulation. I believe it's alt plus left/right arrow keys to toggle the speed during a connection, or you can set it as an option for a directory entry prior to connecting. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thank_burdell · 2023-07-31 19:06 Dude, 2400bps was fine. I started on 300. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thank_burdell · 2023-07-31 19:08 You can use a user-space bandwidth limiter like throttle to accomplish more or less the same thing. Won’t guarantee true 2400baud but should approximate it fairly well. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- IAmRootAtDBZ · 2023-07-31 19:40 So I started on 2400 but I ended up on 14.4 even when everybody else was using 56k. I remember logging on to a system once using 300 by accident because the connection was weird and it was some kind of fucking nightmare that I never want anybody to go through ever LOL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thank_burdell · 2023-07-31 20:11 My 300 ran circles around my peers’ 110s ---------------------------------------------------------------------- IAmRootAtDBZ · 2023-07-31 22:26 Thank you because on this day you've made me feel younger. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- nhaines · 2023-08-01 00:34 I'd probably use communications software to limit the data rate, and probably the very best (as in easy to use but tons of whiz-bang features that just work) is [SyncTerm](http://syncterm.bbsdev.net/). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- robertc19850209 · 2023-08-01 04:31 i know i considered trying out speed emulation on my bbs' web socket as i ended up using ftelnet and that was an option. it's as far as i know nothing that can be done server side ---------------------------------------------------------------------- nolageek · 2023-08-01 19:45 I've done this and it's cute for like a moment. Especially if you call a board with a modern ginormous ansi scroller that can't be cancelled. God help you if you get on a board that displays a sixel graphic. :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- WarMerchant · 2023-08-02 11:17 hahahahaha! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- UCN_cyberstrator · 2023-08-02 18:49 I was thinking of starting another BBS called the 56k club and throttle the network connection down to 56k just so you can experience the thrill of surfing at 56k... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Call_Me_Mauve_Bib · 2023-08-05 20:21 yes https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/229403/rate-limit-network- but-allow-bursting-per-tcp-connection-before-limiting ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Call_Me_Mauve_Bib · 2023-08-05 20:22 okay that one allows an initial burst, but that's maybe okay whilst things not domain to a dialup experience happen in the background. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dim13 · 2023-08-06 14:30 [Cathode](https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/36568/cathode) or [CoolRetroTerm](https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term).