The change to authentication happened before the modem negotiation ended, this should be fixed, all it need it's a short delay until the audio ends, and THEN start auth.
DialUp95 – A 90s inspired nostalgia hit
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Re: DialUp95 – A 90s inspired nostalgia hit
#42So good. But 31kbps? Wow. You guys were spoilt. 28.8 is the best we got and on a very good day when the lines were nice and dry. I think he even nailed the link upgrade sound on the modem.
My first interaction with the internet was an old Windows 3.1 machine with 14.4kbps modem, then we upgraded to a Windows 95 machine with 28.8kbps and later we swapped out the ISA modem for a PCI 56kbps modem. Then ADSL came along and the rest is history. Presumably the modem in this example is a 33.6kbps V.34 modem which had a slightly lower sync negotiated due to a poor line.
Yeah I don't think we ever got that fast in South Africa. I started out on a 1200 baud modem on something called Beltel which is like Prestel which was the UK equivalent. At the time our entire country's international internet connection was via a 9600 modem based at Grahamstown university and the other universities shared that link AFAIK. Then I got a borrowed VMS account at university of cape town which I could use to telnet to a sun unix box and run IRC and my life changed. Was also phone phreaking from Cape Town at a little later on using BlueBeep to connect to a BBS in Orange County called Digital Decay. Was suuuper lucky when I'd get a 14.4 connection on the international trunk. Mostly it was slower. But the AT&T home country directs had the best lines when they were seizable.
Re: DialUp95 – A 90s inspired nostalgia hit
#43Nice job. I saw something like this a little while ago [1] which showed the Hayes AT-DT command but otherwise was pretty limited. Don't forget to use the Network tools to throttle your connection for a more faithful experience!
Feedback:
- The click sound is absurdly loud.
- Is 31,200 bps a UK thing? I grew up in the era of 14.4, 28.8, and 33.6 kbps.
- You should chop up the audio file so the number of tones matches the number of digits in the phone number field.
Re: DialUp95 – A 90s inspired nostalgia hit
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
About 15 years ago I gave some networking courses at a local education center, it was all young kids (18-20 years old). When I told them that the speed we got back in the day was 4 kilobytes per second (56k on a good day), they didn't believe me at all.
I remember using a “high-speed” 14.4 kbps modem. I mean, these were thousands of bits per second , really insane. Faster than many LLMs.
At 2400, you could watch the characters from the BBS come up on your screen, but at 14.4 practically the whole page came up at once!
Re: DialUp95 – A 90s inspired nostalgia hit
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xalTFH5ht-k&t=99 This matches my memory of 56k dialup with the two BONGs. And now I get to share my favorite AT command. M0 could mute the modem! M1 was quieter than the default. I will never understand why those weren't more common! Used like: ATM0DT
I never wanted to mute, because with sound you could hear a bad connection early and retry faster.
Yup, this exactly.
Re: DialUp95 – A 90s inspired nostalgia hit
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xalTFH5ht-k&t=99 This matches my memory of 56k dialup with the two BONGs. And now I get to share my favorite AT command. M0 could mute the modem! M1 was quieter than the default. I will never understand why those weren't more common! Used like: ATM0DT
I never wanted to mute, because with sound you could hear a bad connection early and retry faster.
And you could hear the call waiting beep if you didn’t have a dedicated line for the PC.
Re: DialUp95 – A 90s inspired nostalgia hit
#47Oh, nostalgia. I had a US Robotics 56K modem, which produced two bell-alike sounds during handshake. It was cool. I search for that specific sounds for years and cannot find.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xalTFH5ht-k&t=99 This matches my memory of 56k dialup with the two BONGs. And now I get to share my favorite AT command. M0 could mute the modem! M1 was quieter than the default. I will never understand why those weren't more common! Used like: ATM0DT
Very similar, thank you so much