Lathroum
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I think I have a copy of GEOS here...
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I'm going to connect to KLOV with a lobster and a rock.
So the first person to post to klov via an actual dial up modem on windows xp or earlier, and provide proof wins the internet (and my respect, for about an hour). I'll even give you a free dial up provider (they're legit, at least they were 25 years ago.).
Faxes work over voip, so i don't see why a modem wouldn't.Are you going to give me a free land line too?
I still have my USRobotics Courier HST
It's actually a bit complicated. I've got a friend/former coworker that as part of his business upgrades legacy systems from POTS to VOIP... mostly because POTS lines are generally going away. Companies are raising prices to get people to move away from them, and I guess a lot of them say they'll keep them up as long as they keep going, but won't do any major maintenance/repairs... so a big outage might be for good. That's sorta the exact opposite thing you want for a lot of these legacy systems, since the reason they're still running is because they're critical infrastructure.Faxes work over voip, so i don't see why a modem wouldn't.
True, i've never tried it. But, i have received faxes over both vonage and magicjack. If i weren't leaving in less than 5 hours, i'd try it. I have a magicjack number, and i'm sure i've got an xp box with a modem (or at least a modem in a box around here somewhere). IIRC, i had to set the fax to medium speed for it to work, that's been probably 20 years ago now.It's actually a bit complicated. I've got a friend/former coworker that as part of his business upgrades legacy systems from POTS to VOIP... mostly because POTS lines are generally going away. Companies are raising prices to get people to move away from them, and I guess a lot of them say they'll keep them up as long as they keep going, but won't do any major maintenance/repairs... so a big outage might be for good. That's sorta the exact opposite thing you want for a lot of these legacy systems, since the reason they're still running is because they're critical infrastructure.
Anyway, he's done a bunch of 9600 modem upgrades, and I guess those generally go smoothly (similar to fax over VOIP). IIRC connecting at the faster speeds (e.g. 33.6k and 56k) just doesn't work, and the reason he reached out to me was that he's got a really important customer that still uses a 300 baud modem, and he couldn't do anything to make it work over VOIP. He knows that I do a lot of weird crap, so figured I might have some ideas.
While VOIP sounds good to the ear, there are vocoder processes going on that change the underlying signal. So it sounds the same to us, but it affects the digital modulation. Additionally, while you can give priority to VOIP packets and force encoding that reduces compression, etc... there are still delays and gaps that aren't present in a true landline signal. I sent him a bunch of ideas on tweaks to try, but he said none of them solved the problem. I believe the underlying problem is that 300 baud modulation is FSK, vs. PSK or QAM used on some of the faster ones... so I guess my point is "it depends".
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