Collection of V.90/V.92 modem sounds (2016)
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Collection of V.90/V.92 modem sounds (2016)
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Re: Collection of V.90/V.92 modem sounds (2016)
#2Listening to some of those sure brings back some memories. The best part is [click]hey can I use the phone now?[click] connection lost
Re: Collection of V.90/V.92 modem sounds (2016)
#3In college I had a 300 baud connection to a school PDP-11, with a phone handset coupler. The modem dropped the connection constantly so the handshake connect was constant. And those sounds were increasingly annoying. You whippersnappers with your always on internet have no idea how tough it was for us brave pioneers.
Re: Collection of V.90/V.92 modem sounds (2016)
#4Did anyone that didn’t live inside the CO ever actually connect at 56k, or was this only the stuff of legends?
Edit: My personal max downlink record was 48 kbps, despite being subscribed to 56k service. This is why I ask. This also brings back memories of hovering the mouse cursor over the dial-up icon in the system tray in Windows to see your line speed.
Re: Collection of V.90/V.92 modem sounds (2016)
#5In college I had a 300 baud connection to a school PDP-11, with a phone handset coupler. The modem dropped the connection constantly so the handshake connect was constant. And those sounds were increasingly annoying. You whippersnappers with your always on internet have no idea how tough it was for us brave pioneers.
Hey, I resent that! I built my own 300 baud modem from parts I got from a dumpster, more or less guessing my way through the circuit for lack of documentatino. It worked, it had lots of blinking LEDs, a sturdy plywood box with a mass of switches which made it look like an ICBM launch console but it did get me online with my Commodore-64. Initially I had to dial by hand using a rotary phone, later I made a pulse-dial circuit and program so I could do some war-dialing - at 300 baud. On a shared phone line in a student house, with one of those pulse counters which clonked loudly when another quarter was added to the phone bill. At night. Boy, did they support my late-night hobbies...
Re: Collection of V.90/V.92 modem sounds (2016)
#6Did anyone that didn’t live inside the CO ever actually connect at 56k, or was this only the stuff of legends? Edit: My personal max downlink record was 48 kbps, despite being subscribed to 56k service. This is why I ask. This also brings back memories of hovering the mouse cursor over the dial-up icon in the system tray in Windows to see your line speed.
In Brazil it was very common to use dial up until early 2000's. Connecting at 56k was usual.
Re: Collection of V.90/V.92 modem sounds (2016)
#7Did anyone that didn’t live inside the CO ever actually connect at 56k, or was this only the stuff of legends? Edit: My personal max downlink record was 48 kbps, despite being subscribed to 56k service. This is why I ask. This also brings back memories of hovering the mouse cursor over the dial-up icon in the system tray in Windows to see your line speed.
In Brazil it was very common to use dial up until early 2000's. Connecting at 56k was usual.
56kbps was the theoretical upper limit download speed (at the expense of upload speed since
the maximum duplex bandwidth was 64kbps) for 56k modems. Even in very good conditions these connections rarely broke 50kbps.
Re: Collection of V.90/V.92 modem sounds (2016)
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
In Brazil it was very common to use dial up until early 2000's. Connecting at 56k was usual.
56kbps was the theoretical upper limit download speed (at the expense of upload speed since the maximum duplex bandwidth was 64kbps) for 56k modems. Even in very good conditions these connections rarely broke 50kbps.
The max I ever saw with V.90 or V.92 over years of business travel in North America was about 47kbps. The mean was more like about 38kpbs.
Re: Collection of V.90/V.92 modem sounds (2016)
#9Did anyone that didn’t live inside the CO ever actually connect at 56k, or was this only the stuff of legends? Edit: My personal max downlink record was 48 kbps, despite being subscribed to 56k service. This is why I ask. This also brings back memories of hovering the mouse cursor over the dial-up icon in the system tray in Windows to see your line speed.
We had 56k until we upgraded to ADSL in 2003, I'm from Denmark.
Re: Collection of V.90/V.92 modem sounds (2016)
#10The use of stereo in the recording is really lovely. Listen with headphones if you can.