51–60 of 119 posts
Sweet, I've been looking for one of these to test CSD calls out for the first time in like 20 years before GSM gets shut down on T-Mobile. There was one other service in Vancouver that probably shut down last year but I'm not sure data calls work internationally. EDIT: This is that service if you are a Canadian that wants to try it, https://www2.vcn.bc.ca/free-internet-access-via-dial-up/
So how do I realistically access this with a modern laptop and zero ancient modems left to my name.
> Don't want to pay for a landline? No worries! You don't have to! Using an Analog Telephone Adapter, you can dial in to 2600.network. The ATA will give you analog service from a SIP VoIP provider.
So presumably, acquire an adapter and hook it up to some VoIP setup?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
>No firewall rules, no unintentional leakage, no accidental logins No guarantee that the box won't poke for ways to break out either, or was there a pinky promise? I guess it was somewhat easy to disguise it, the search box is supposed to constantly poke around and index things, right?
My understanding of what the parent wrote is the phone line would be disconnected in the normal case - can't break out if it's physically disconnected.
FYI - 2600 Hz is a common handshake tone used in telco. Hence why “2600” is referenced. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2600_hertz
Anyway, I assume these as well as the tone are also a strong inspiration for the name.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Orinoco Gold! I switched to passive Atheros when they ended up in netbooks, but I probably still have my scancat equipment somewhere.
Wifi was somewhat later but yes, also lots of fun things to explore!
And agreed, many hours spent dialing and driving around with friends, laptops, serial cables attached to GPS devices, and wifi antennas.
So how do I realistically access this with a modern laptop and zero ancient modems left to my name.
I mean, the site itself notes: > Don't want to pay for a landline? No worries! You don't have to! Using an Analog Telephone Adapter, you can dial in to 2600.network. The ATA will give you analog service from a SIP VoIP provider. So presumably, acquire an adapter and hook it up to some VoIP setup?
FYI - 2600 Hz is a common handshake tone used in telco. Hence why “2600” is referenced. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2600_hertz
It was also the inspirational name behind a multitude of “hacker” (really more like tinker) communities back around the millennium. I’m not sure where these went, maybe they were killed by social media, but there used to be a lot of 2600 named tinker group for technology “nerds” here in Scandinavia. I guess what happened was the same thing which happened for me, people got older and stopped “hanging-out”, but I wonde…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
My understanding of what the parent wrote is the phone line would be disconnected in the normal case - can't break out if it's physically disconnected.
I wonder… wouldn't a physically disconnected ethernet cable work as well?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wonder… wouldn't a physically disconnected ethernet cable work as well?
That design probably has more with phone network penetration rather than corporate firewalls. The most likely use case for on prem Google would be far away sites with no connectivity except a phone line
So a decade and a half ago there used to be the Google Search Appliance (no idea if it still exists). It was essentially a black (actually yellow) box with some Google magic inside that let you have Google search on premises and for local documents you didn’t want leaving your data center back when people still had their own data centers. One problem with this premise was that when the appliance was not working how i…