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Tangential but arguably related: what phone numbers around the world are still hooked to modems? What's out there that I can [still] dial in to? The reason I e
by exikyut 8y ago
Tangential but arguably related: what phone numbers around the world are still hooked to modems? What's out there that I can [still] dial in to?
The reason I emphasize "around the world" is that I want to play with an old modem I have here, I want to use my actual landline for the testing, I live in Australia, and long-distance calling doesn't really appeal because, besides the costs, it'll probably kill 56k throughput.
I've noted some old dialin lines used by ISPs, because that'll at least get me to "right, PPP's complaining but that means it's working", but it would be very nice to go a bit further.
- Rjevski 8y agoThe problem is that some interconnects between carriers use codecs optimised for voice and voice only, and your modem will most likely not work at all. The days of fully analog landlines are long gone - even if you get a phone jack, nothing guarantees it's not being digitised and then compressed with the aforementioned codecs down the line.