VOIP BBS
pomprocker
now that VOIP means we can call anywhere in the country for as long as
we want for free?
R Flowers
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> Who would be interested in seeing more and more BBS's resurfacing again
> now that VOIP means we can call anywhere in the country for as long as
> we want for free?
>
I had thought that using a modem (well, the kind we're talking about) was
impossible with VOIP. However, this article points out that it is indeed
possible, although not as smooth as you might hope.
http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/161
-- R Flowers
Leif Bloomquist
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> Who would be interested in seeing more and more BBS's resurfacing again
> now that VOIP means we can call anywhere in the country for as long as
> we want for free?
Over on comp.sys.cbm (gasp!) there was a thread from someone who tried to
set up a C64 BBS over VOIP, and it worked very poorly. Too much line noise
with VOIP for the old modems, apparently. Search the group for "Cottonwood
BBS" to get the details.
That said, there's a trick we've been using on C64s for years - use a PC to
act as a virtual "Modem" for your BBS. Then you can use Telnet to call
these BBSes for free. This could easily be adapted for use on Tandys
(Tandies?) as well.
Here's my page on how it works.
http://home.ica.net/~leifb/bbs/
Regards,
Leif
Michael Black
to connect with a BBS anyway. You're using the computer as a "smart"
terminal, and once you have enough CPU power to do that, it doesn't matter
whether it's a Color Computer or a 1GHz Pentium.
And frankly, I think it's silly to even be considering dial-up BBSs at
this time. The number of BBSs has declined greatly in the past decade,
because people have moved to the internet. They didn't make long distance
calls around the country to BBSs in the old days for some intrinsic thrill
of making those long distant calls, they made them because there was no
other way to connect with those distant BBSs (and there might not
have been a similar BBS or similar content locally). Likely a large
percentage of old BBSs that still exist have either gone to the internet
completely, or at least can be telnetted into along with a remaining
phone line or two.
And that's the way to go if someone really wants to resurrect
the BBS experience.
Michael
purita...@yahoo.com
I think it would be great, even if we are limited to 300/1200 baud like
in the good old days. It might not be all that practical, at least not
untill we get the speed up, but it would be fun to try. I might even
set one up on my CoCo 3.
But I do have just one stupid question, though.
What is VOIP?
purita...@yahoo.com
> Over on comp.sys.cbm (gasp!)
Oh, the're not so bad.
>there was a thread from someone who tried to
> set up a C64 BBS over VOIP, and it worked very poorly. Too much line noise
> with VOIP for the old modems, apparently. Search the group for "Cottonwood
> BBS" to get the details.
What was the baud rate?
> That said, there's a trick we've been using on C64s for years - use a PC to
> act as a virtual "Modem" for your BBS.
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!
<gag><choke><barf>
> Then you can use Telnet to call these BBSes for free.
Why not just use telnet on the C64?
Leif Bloomquist
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> Why not just use telnet on the C64?
For which end? There is a Telnet client for the C64 and RR-Net Ethernet
cartridge now called GuruTerm, so that works fine. But nobody's written or
adapted a BBS yet that works with TCP/IP (Telnet).
Tim
DaveG
> But I do have just one stupid question, though.
>
> What is VOIP?
Voice Over IP. Voice phone calls over an IP network, eg the Internet.
Becoming very common in company environments now partly because it's all
managed over the IT infrastructure instead of two seperate ones for
computers and phone, partly because every office worldwide can be linked
"internally" by an IP based phone system and partly because you can choose
your phone number and area code.
A guy I know runs a web design company. He lives in London and has VOIP
0208 London number. He spends some months of the year living in Spain.
All he does is connects up to the local ISP in Spain, plugs his VOIP phone
into the router and his calls now magically appear on his "house" phone in
Spain even though his clients are calling a UK London STD number ;-)
Oh yeah, almost forgot. IP phone calls are usually free to other phones
on the same network (and those with cross-over agreements) no matter where
in the world they are physically located. Usually calls from VOIP to
other VOIP networks are nearly free while calls to landlines are usually
cheaper than landline to landline.
Phew. End of marketing speak :-)
Think of it as Skype on steroids.
--
DaveG
"Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt
up after being drunk all night." Isaac Asimov
pomprocker
300 baud TRS-80 Modem I, plugged the modem directly into my VoIP
router. Worked like a champ, I even took a picture of my screen.
dblt...@gmail.com
http://www.dbltek.com
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