[rescue] uucp

[Ryan Krammer]

Unfortunately, from personal experience, modems are rather unreliable 
over even the best of VoIP, even with what passes for low latency on the 
Internet and using the same codec as the real digital telephone network. 
You can often get a slow link (anywhere from 9600 to 28.8k), and it will 
maybe even work fine for a minute or two, but it usually quickly drops 
or the error rate gets unusably high once you try to send any 
significant amount of data over it, or keep it up for longer than a 
couple minutes.

I do encourage anyone who is seriously interested in modems to look into 
getting a proper analogue phone line. Despite what many people may 
think, you can still get the service, even if it is not well-advertised, 
and you may have to convince the sales rep that you know what you want, 
know it exists, and won't settle for less.

- Ryan Krammer

On 2022-06-05 9:46 p.m., Mark Price wrote:
> I am also interested in getting back into modems!
>
>> So I too have a box of modems and was thinking of trying to setup a VoIP based dialin at some point.
> I'm also interested in this.  I haven't yet tried, but common internet
> lore seems to say modems can't work over VoIP, due to the codec /
> compression.  I know that some people use fax over VoIP, so I think it
> must be possible with the right codec and modem speed.
>
> If anyone else is knowledgeable about dialtone services and modems
> over VoIP, please chime in!
>
>
> -Mark
>
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