Bonding twelve 56K modems together to set dial-up broadband records
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Re: Bonding twelve 56K modems together to set dial-up broadband records
#2They ran real dialup modems over VoIP??? Didn’t think it worked that way.
Of course 12 physical phone lines to a residence would be eye wateringly expensive…
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#3Back in the day, there was occasional talk/accounts of "shotgunning" two modems on two separate landlines. Now we know it would work on a dozen, well done.
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#4I wish the article had more details on the ISP side of the connection!
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#51997 me is jealous.
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#6I wish the article had more details on the ISP side of the connection!
They ran it themselves, you'd have to watch their other videos.
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#7They ran real dialup modems over VoIP??? Didn’t think it worked that way. Of course 12 physical phone lines to a residence would be eye wateringly expensive…
The price they charged to install a second one, "Business line" made the first one look like a loss leader.
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#8That would have been pretty good back in the day. I don't recall when the BoStream people started to first appear but they started to push 1mbit/s or more and the 56k modems felt very slow in comparison.
I don't miss tweaking all the counter strike settings to try and optimise for the latency to the servers I played on and the limitations of bandwidth nor loosing the only phone. Everything was so much slower.
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#9They ran real dialup modems over VoIP??? Didn’t think it worked that way. Of course 12 physical phone lines to a residence would be eye wateringly expensive…
The key is to use a non-compressed codec such as G.711u/a-law, and disable echo and silence suppression. I can regularly get 28.8k-33.6k carrier speeds across the US when using an ITSP/VoIP provider and my modems connected to Grandstream/Linksys/Cisco analog telephone adapters.
Re: Bonding twelve 56K modems together to set dial-up broadband records
#10The Serial Port is an awesome YT channel[0], don’t miss their second channel The Parallel port[1].
[0]: https://youtu.be/LZ259Jx8MQY?si=w4ttuV-kqoRQykmI
[1]: https://youtube.com/@theparallelport?si=Go4gTh6JKVypCx84
They have a ton of documentaries about the early internet, including interviews with people part of a particular scene at that time.