• Dialup line for my BBS

    From Nightfox@21:1/137 to All on Mon Apr 24 10:59:02 2023
    I recently bought a modem and added a dialup phone line for my BBS. If anyone with a modem wants to dial in, this is the phone number (local to northwest Oregon, USA):

    1 971-910-4722

    Nightfox
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  • From The Godfather@21:3/165 to Nightfox on Mon Apr 24 19:21:43 2023
    I recently bought a modem and added a dialup phone line for my BBS. If anyone with a modem wants to dial in, this is the phone number (local to northwest Oregon, USA):
    1 971-910-4722

    Oh thats sweet! Ok, I haven't thought about dialup lines in years. Is it an internet phone, or do phone companies on traditional land lines still exist? I know we still have the jacks in our house that at one point was used for ATT DSL. Are they used for much of anything these days? I'd love to get my old Pentium Sony VAIO PC fired up on it's dial up modem, running .. who knows .. WWIV? Telegard? Something from my younger years.

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to The Godfather on Mon Apr 24 16:41:51 2023
    Re: Re: Dialup line for my BBS
    By: The Godfather to Nightfox on Mon Apr 24 2023 07:21 pm

    I recently bought a modem and added a dialup phone line for my BBS.
    If anyone with a modem wants to dial in, this is the phone number
    (local to northwest Oregon, USA):
    1 971-910-4722

    Oh thats sweet! Ok, I haven't thought about dialup lines in years. Is it an internet phone, or do phone companies on traditional land lines still exist? I know we still have the jacks in our house that at one point was

    It's an internet-based phone line (VOIP). With the service I'm using, I bought a Cisco network phone line adatper, which plugs into my network via ethernet and has a phone jack on it. The place where I'm living has phone jacks in the walls, but I've heard the traditional phone services all go online anyway, so I'm not sure that service would be much better. The service I'm using now is quite a bit cheaper than traditional phone service.

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  • From Diamond Dave@21:1/194 to Nightfox on Mon Apr 24 19:57:23 2023
    Re: Dialup line for my BBS
    By: Nightfox to All on Mon Apr 24 2023 10:59 am

    I recently bought a modem and added a dialup phone line for my BBS. If anyo

    1 971-910-4722

    Nightfox

    I need to call it sometime. I assume you're using VOIP of some sort?

    I also have a dial up line for my BBS. Actually two.

    1-540-369-2900

    and

    1-833-473-5400 (toll free, US only)

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  • From Abbub@21:2/145 to Nightfox on Mon Apr 24 18:41:30 2023
    It's an internet-based phone line (VOIP). With the service I'm using, I bought a Cisco network phone line adatper, which plugs into my network
    via ethernet and has a phone jack on it. The place where I'm living

    What service are you using? I have a USR 56k external hooked up to a Linksys PAP2T that's using VOIP.MS. I have about 5 or 6 modems, and I've found that the faster ones with better error correction (v.92 in my case) do much better than the slower ones. I have my node 1 set up on the modem, but I haven't really gotten around to testing it yet, mostly because I have too many other things going on.

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Abbub on Mon Apr 24 18:51:48 2023
    Re: Re: Dialup line for my BBS
    By: Abbub to Nightfox on Mon Apr 24 2023 06:41 pm

    What service are you using? I have a USR 56k external hooked up to a Linksys PAP2T that's using VOIP.MS. I have about 5 or 6 modems, and I've found that the faster ones with better error correction (v.92 in my case) do much better than the slower ones. I have my node 1 set up on the modem, but I haven't really gotten around to testing it yet, mostly because I have too many other things going on.

    I also use voip.ms. The modem I'm using is a MultiTech MT5634ZBA-V92 connected to a Cisco ATA-192.

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Nightfox on Tue Apr 25 19:52:56 2023
    On 24 Apr 2023 at 10:59a, Nightfox pondered and said...

    I recently bought a modem and added a dialup phone line for my BBS. If anyone with a modem wants to dial in, this is the phone number (local to northwest Oregon, USA):

    Cool, well done :)

    Sorry but it's a bit of a toll call for me to test...

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  • From claw@21:1/210 to Nightfox on Tue Apr 25 07:23:23 2023
    On 24 Apr 2023, Nightfox said the following...
    I recently bought a modem and added a dialup phone line for my BBS. If anyone with a modem wants to dial in, this is the phone number (local to northwest Oregon, USA):

    1 971-910-4722

    Nightfox

    Cool! What BBS software do you run?

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  • From Adept@21:2/108 to Avon on Tue Apr 25 12:52:37 2023
    Sorry but it's a bit of a toll call for me to test...

    That does seem so odd, these days.

    Especially since my BBS is on hardware in the US while I'm in Germany, I call my mom using Google Voice (for free) to her phone line, over the internet, and then all the other internet things where I'm constantly traversing countries.

    And yet, somehow, phone calling long distances still cost more, despite it doing less than the internet, and being able to do _video_ calls for free.

    Odd.

    I guess I understand why, but... it doesn't have to seem reasonable to me, regardless.

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to claw on Tue Apr 25 09:07:59 2023
    Re: Re: Dialup line for my BBS
    By: claw to Nightfox on Tue Apr 25 2023 07:23 am

    I recently bought a modem and added a dialup phone line for my BBS.
    If anyone with a modem wants to dial in, this is the phone number
    (local to northwest Oregon, USA):

    1 971-910-4722

    Cool! What BBS software do you run?

    I run Synchronet.

    Nightfox
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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Diamond Dave on Tue Apr 25 09:14:23 2023
    Re: Dialup line for my BBS
    By: Diamond Dave to Nightfox on Mon Apr 24 2023 07:57 pm

    I recently bought a modem and added a dialup phone line for my BBS.
    If anyo

    1 971-910-4722

    I need to call it sometime. I assume you're using VOIP of some sort?

    Yes, I'm using voip.ms for VOIP service.

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Adept on Tue Apr 25 09:17:47 2023
    Re: Re: Dialup line for my BBS
    By: Adept to Avon on Tue Apr 25 2023 12:52 pm

    Sorry but it's a bit of a toll call for me to test...

    That does seem so odd, these days.

    Especially since my BBS is on hardware in the US while I'm in Germany, I call my mom using Google Voice (for free) to her phone line, over the internet, and then all the other internet things where I'm constantly traversing countries.

    And yet, somehow, phone calling long distances still cost more, despite it doing less than the internet, and being able to do _video_ calls for free.

    Yeah, it is a bit odd. I wonder if it has something to do with the fact that it's a phone line using a phone number - Maybe someone along the line charges a fee for infrastructure for a phone number to work the way it does.

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Adept on Wed Apr 26 18:37:06 2023
    On 25 Apr 2023 at 12:52p, Adept pondered and said...

    And yet, somehow, phone calling long distances still cost more, despite
    it doing less than the internet, and being able to do _video_ calls for free.

    Yes crazy huh, but then again most folks may well bypass the old toll call issues now with voip via their favorite application, so yeah, I'm left wondering how much business there is in toll calling these days. I guess not much... hence telcos move to all things broadband and digital.

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  • From claw@21:1/210 to Nightfox on Wed Apr 26 07:43:23 2023
    On 25 Apr 2023, Nightfox said the following...
    I run Synchronet.

    Nightfox

    Thats cool. I wonder if Mystic has a modem option

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  • From Warpslide@21:3/110 to claw on Wed Apr 26 09:12:30 2023
    On 26 Apr 2023, claw said the following...

    Thats cool. I wonder if Mystic has a modem option

    It doesn't, but you can use Synchronet's SEXPOTS application to answer the modem and then it'll telnet you into Mystic. That's how I have it setup here.


    Jay

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  • From Adept@21:2/108 to Nightfox on Wed Apr 26 13:31:36 2023
    Yeah, it is a bit odd. I wonder if it has something to do with the fact that it's a phone line using a phone number - Maybe someone along the
    line charges a fee for infrastructure for a phone number to work the way it does.

    Yeah. No doubt it's something like that. But the difference between a phone number and an IP address, technically, is pretty minimal, these days.

    But I know, at least with US stuff, there are a variety of regulations involving phone lines, that just aren't going to be there with an app.

    And, if you're charging for the inter-country calling, I imagine you're unlikely to go, "Ya know, we'll just stop charging for this thing that doesn't cost us anything extra.", because, hey, if you can continue providing the service you always did, but it costs you way less to offer the service...

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Avon on Wed Apr 26 07:01:00 2023
    Avon wrote to Adept <=-

    Yes crazy huh, but then again most folks may well bypass the old toll
    call issues now with voip via their favorite application, so yeah, I'm left wondering how much business there is in toll calling these days. I guess not much... hence telcos move to all things broadband and
    digital.

    My mom has a land line at our cabin; the monthly bill is around
    $60/month for a line that goes unused most of the time. People ditch
    land lines, telcos raise prices on the people who remain with them,
    which drives more people away. Seems like an odd way of doing business.



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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to claw on Wed Apr 26 10:32:43 2023
    Re: Re: Dialup line for my BBS
    By: claw to Nightfox on Wed Apr 26 2023 07:43 am

    I run Synchronet.

    Thats cool. I wonder if Mystic has a modem option

    If it doesn't, you could probably easily use a modem with Mystic. Synchronet doesn't even have modem support built-in; the modem support is via a program that listens for the modem answering and when it answers, it creates a telnet session for the caller. The serial port and the hostname and port for the telnet connection are configurable, so it could potentially be used with any BBS software. This tool happens to be included with Synchronet, but it wouldn't be limited to Synchronet. I've heard there are other similar softwarwe tools as well.

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  • From claw@21:1/210 to Warpslide on Thu Apr 27 07:25:06 2023
    On 26 Apr 2023, Warpslide said the following...
    It doesn't, but you can use Synchronet's SEXPOTS application to answer
    the modem and then it'll telnet you into Mystic. That's how I have it setup here.

    Jay

    And this will work with Mystic too?

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  • From Warpslide@21:3/110 to claw on Thu Apr 27 08:55:11 2023
    On 27 Apr 2023, claw said the following...

    And this will work with Mystic too?

    Yup, I run Mystic and it works. (It'll work with really anything that accepts a telnet connection, even Net2BBS/Netfoss & Telegard).

    SEXPOTS (I've used it on both Windows & now linux) will listen for a ring and then answer the modem. Once a connection is established it'll connect that modem session to telnet. In my case it's running on the same box so it just telnets to localhost:2323.

    I'm using voip.ms with a Cisco SPA112 ATA. The ATA is connected to a USR Sportster 56k modem which is connected to a USB to serial adapter.

    All I have to do us run:
    sexpots -com /dev/ttyUSB0 -port 2323 &

    and it'll do the rest.

    Nobody has ever actually called and connected before (other than me testing it), but at US$0.85 /mo for the phone number and less than one cent per minute if someone actually calls it's a neat & inexpensive novelty to have setup.

    Here's a voip.ms referral link if you don't already have an account. That'll get you (and me) a $10 credit after you sign up & make your first call:

    https://voip.ms/en/invite/MTI0NDc1


    Jay

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to claw on Thu Apr 27 09:23:19 2023
    Re: Re: Dialup line for my BBS
    By: claw to Warpslide on Thu Apr 27 2023 07:25 am

    It doesn't, but you can use Synchronet's SEXPOTS application to
    answer the modem and then it'll telnet you into Mystic. That's how
    I have it setup here.

    And this will work with Mystic too?

    That's what I'm using (with my Synchronet BBS); I don't see why it wouldn't work with Mystic.

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Warpslide on Thu Apr 27 09:29:41 2023
    Re: Re: Dialup line for my BBS
    By: Warpslide to claw on Thu Apr 27 2023 08:55 am

    All I have to do us run:
    sexpots -com /dev/ttyUSB0 -port 2323 &

    and it'll do the rest.

    I made a service configuration file to run sexpots (for systems that use systemd) and made it available here:
    http://www.digitaldistortionbbs.com:81/synchronet_stuff/sexpots_modem1.service

    With that, you can use systemctl to manage sexpots (i.e., 'sudo systemctl start sexpots_modem1' and such - and it will automatically start when the system starts up, after running sbbs.service).

    If you (or anyone else) wants to use that service file, it assumes it will read the configuration options from sexpots.ini, but you could put the command-line options you want in there. Also, you'd need to change 'username' to whatever user account you want it to run in, and also change the file paths as appropriate for your system.

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  • From Digital Man to claw on Thu Apr 27 09:46:54 2023
    Re: Re: Dialup line for my BBS
    By: claw to Warpslide on Thu Apr 27 2023 07:25 am

    On 26 Apr 2023, Warpslide said the following...
    It doesn't, but you can use Synchronet's SEXPOTS application to answer the modem and then it'll telnet you into Mystic. That's how I have it setup here.

    Jay

    And this will work with Mystic too?

    Yes. It should work with any TCP/IP terminal server (supporting Telnet or Raw connections).
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  • From Blue White@21:4/134 to Warpslide on Fri Apr 28 14:31:55 2023
    Warpslide wrote to claw <=-

    I'm using voip.ms with a Cisco SPA112 ATA. The ATA is connected to a
    USR Sportster 56k modem which is connected to a USB to serial adapter.

    So voip.ms works well with modems? Some VOIP providers do not work so
    well, especially at higher speeds (2400 or 9600+). Also if you have a voip service, what is the Cisco hardware for?

    Thanks!


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  • From Warpslide@21:3/110 to Blue White on Fri Apr 28 18:10:50 2023
    On 28 Apr 2023, Blue White said the following...

    So voip.ms works well with modems? Some VOIP providers do not work so well, especially at higher speeds (2400 or 9600+). Also if you have a

    Yeah, voip.ms works well enough, you just have to make sure you're using G.711u for the codec, there's a few other tweaks you can make on the ATA side to make things a little more reliable. (Jitter, silence suppression, echo cancellation, rtp packet size).

    I've connected at 14.4 & 28.8 and it worked quite well, a little line noise here & there at 28.8.

    Also if you have a voip service, what is the Cisco hardware for?

    The Cisco box is the ATA that provides the phone jack the modem plugs into so it can talk to voip.ms.


    Jay

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  • From Abbub@21:2/145 to Blue White on Sat Apr 29 08:32:04 2023
    So voip.ms works well with modems? Some VOIP providers do not work so
    well, especially at higher speeds (2400 or 9600+). Also if you have a
    voip service, what is the Cisco hardware for?

    Actually, my experience has been that VOIP works *better* with higher speed modems (14.4, 28k, and (especially) 56k) not because of the speed of the
    modem, but because of compression / error correction features they have that slower, older modems do not. My 56k v.92 modem works better than any of the other ones I have.

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  • From Blue White@21:4/134 to Warpslide on Sat Apr 29 08:59:47 2023
    Warpslide wrote to Blue White <=-

    I've connected at 14.4 & 28.8 and it worked quite well, a little line noise here & there at 28.8.

    Also if you have a voip service, what is the Cisco hardware for?

    The Cisco box is the ATA that provides the phone jack the modem plugs
    into so it can talk to voip.ms.

    Sort of like the MagicJack contraption does. So do they provide that Cicso hardware, or is that something you chose because it works better?



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  • From Warpslide@21:3/110 to Blue White on Sat Apr 29 15:59:56 2023
    On 29 Apr 2023, Blue White said the following...

    Sort of like the MagicJack contraption does. So do they provide that Cicso hardware, or is that something you chose because it works better?

    VoIP.ms is a BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) provider, so you can use any compatible hardware or software.

    In the past I've used the Linksys PAP2T which I set for my Mom up with when she wanted to cancel her landline due to cost, so I got the Cisco SPA112 for myself.


    Jay

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  • From Gamgee@21:2/138 to Blue White on Sat Apr 29 21:27:00 2023
    Blue White wrote to Warpslide <=-

    I've connected at 14.4 & 28.8 and it worked quite well, a little line noise here & there at 28.8.

    Also if you have a voip service, what is the Cisco hardware for?

    The Cisco box is the ATA that provides the phone jack the modem plugs
    into so it can talk to voip.ms.

    Sort of like the MagicJack contraption does. So do they provide
    that Cicso hardware, or is that something you chose because it
    works better?

    The voip.ms service doesn't provide the hardware. You sign up with them
    to get a phone number, basically, and the Cisco ATA translates phone to internet (via LAN/ethernet connection).

    I have been doing this setup this week to add dialup to my system, and
    it seems to be working pretty well (gonna advertise it soon). I got a Grandstream brand ATA from Amazon for $40 and it works well.



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  • From Tracker1@21:3/149 to Blue White on Tue May 2 00:22:02 2023
    So voip.ms works well with modems? Some VOIP providers do not work so well, especially at higher speeds (2400 or 9600+). Also if you have a voip service, what is the Cisco hardware for?

    Some voip providers offer support for "Fax" service, in the case of voip.ms you have to request it... usually this means you should be able to get 9600-14.4 give or take without much issue. You should do some testing and configure your modem not to negotiate at higher than 14.4 or 19.2k connections.

    The cisco box connects to a VOIP line over ethernet/internet and will provide line service for a POTS device (such as a standard modem).


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  • From Roon@21:4/148 to Tracker1 on Thu May 4 11:03:32 2023
    Hello Tracker1,

    02 May 23 00:22, you wrote to Blue White:

    So voip.ms works well with modems? Some VOIP providers do not
    work so well, especially at higher speeds (2400 or 9600+). Also
    if you have a voip service, what is the Cisco hardware for?

    Some voip providers offer support for "Fax" service, in the case of
    voip.ms you have to request it... usually this means you should be
    able to get 9600-14.4 give or take without much issue. You should do
    some testing and configure your modem not to negotiate at higher than
    14.4 or 19.2k connections.

    The cisco box connects to a VOIP line over ethernet/internet and will provide line service for a POTS device (such as a standard modem).

    which codec do you recommend for modem communications?

    Regards,
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  • From Oli@21:3/102 to Roon on Thu May 4 11:19:31 2023
    Roon wrote (2023-05-04):

    Hello Tracker1,

    02 May 23 00:22, you wrote to Blue White:

    So voip.ms works well with modems? Some VOIP providers do not
    work so well, especially at higher speeds (2400 or 9600+). Also
    if you have a voip service, what is the Cisco hardware for?

    Some voip providers offer support for "Fax" service, in the case of
    voip.ms you have to request it... usually this means you should be
    able to get 9600-14.4 give or take without much issue. You should do
    some testing and configure your modem not to negotiate at higher than
    14.4 or 19.2k connections.

    The cisco box connects to a VOIP line over ethernet/internet and will
    provide line service for a POTS device (such as a standard modem).

    which codec do you recommend for modem communications?

    G.711 aka ulaw / alaw. It's the same codec that ISDN uses and that was used when POTS moved from analog to digital infrastructure.



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  • From Warpslide@21:3/110 to All on Thu May 4 15:32:12 2023
    On 27 Apr 2023, Warpslide said the following...

    I'm using voip.ms with a Cisco SPA112 ATA. The ATA is connected to a USR Sportster 56k modem which is connected to a USB to serial adapter.

    * Cisco phone adapters vulnerable to RCE attacks, no fix available *

    Cisco has disclosed a vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco SPA112 2-Port Phone Adapters, allowing an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the devices.

    Tracked as CVE-2023-20126 and having a "critical" CVSS score of 9.8, this vulnerability is caused by a missing authentication process within the firmware upgrade function.
    [...]
    While these adapters may be used in many organizations, they are likely not exposed to the Internet, making these flaws mostly exploitable from the local network.
    [...]
    Since Cisco SPA112 has reached the end of its life, it is no longer supported by the vendor and will not receive a security update. Also, Cisco has provided no mitigations for CVE-2023-20136.

    https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisco-phone-adapters-vulnerable- to-rce-attacks-no-fix-available/



    Always fun to know. Luckily mine isn't exposed to the open internet.


    Jay

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  • From Tracker1@21:3/149 to Roon on Sat May 6 19:47:40 2023
    which codec do you recommend for modem communications?

    Not sure, been better part of a couple decades since the last time I played with a modem or fax over a voip service...


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