I noticed BINKLEY was not on the Elist, so I relisted it:
Not many POTS around any more anyway. :(
Not many POTS around any more anyway. :(
Not really, but as soon as I get my fax/voice/data switch out of my
truck (which is in temporary storage), I'll be dialup also. We
don't get many phone calls, so I can justify part of the cost of a
phone line with the dialup.
GLad you relisted it, I"d be noting it for months.
dialup also. We don't get many phone calls, so I can
justify part of the cost of a phone line with the dialup.
I'm running both POTS and IO, I do have a few POTS users, a few die
hard Fido users. :) I'm a die hard Fido sysop myself. :)
Actually I'm a dinosaur.
Actually I'm a dinosaur.We all are if you look at it the right way. <G> Especially in Fidonet.
<Cough> As you know I just got around to switching back to Ma Bell
for my phone lines, and will be offering pots again here when I finish hunting down the ring detector. <G>
WHAT!
No BINKLEY in the elist, what's the lonely POTS's sysops going to do?
Not many POTS around any more anyway. :(
Not many POTS around any more anyway. :(
Depends where you find yourself in the world ... :-)
On the flip side, I need to learn how to set up the cost measuring
stuff in BT because it looks like while I can get unlimited US
calling, calls to Canada, Eh? are going to run me seven cents a
minute. Iffa you want, for Micronet, we could switch to POTS feed.
Which nodelist compiler are you running? YOur cost tracking stuff
depends on what you do with the nodelist, i.e. note all the CAnadian
area codes and set up the cost per minute in your control file for
your nodelist compiler, at least that's the way it works with xlaxnode
and bt. SAme with tbbsnc which is the tbbs version of xlaxnode.
HOpe that helps.
Depends where you find yourself in the world ... :-)
I'm hoping that if I set up dialup access for Micronet (my own FTN network), I'll get more international nodes. :)
Well ... , might consider it ...
Which nodelist compiler are you running? YOur cost tracking stuff
depends on what you do with the nodelist, i.e. note all the CAnadian
area codes and set up the cost per minute in your control file for
your nodelist compiler, at least that's the way it works with xlaxnode
and bt. SAme with tbbsnc which is the tbbs version of xlaxnode.
Okay, I've never dealt with this before so it's something new to me.
I use QNode/2 for my nodelist compiler; I'll take a look at the
setup. I didn't know how BT worked with that, but I DO have the BT
docs I'll take a look at. I should fire up my old dot matrix and
dump those docs out.
HOpe that helps.
It does, thanks!
If I still had one of my spare USR Couriers, I'd send you one of those-theycan
do distinctive ring built-in. I'm going to be using a ComStation 5500; anice
Eh? are going to run me seven cents a minute. Iffa you want, for Micronet,we
could switch to POTS feed.
I even have some people waiting for me to get POTS for Micronet and Fidonet too...would be rather fun to have that going again. :)
I need to use my USB modem as my BBS machine has no serial ports.
The Internal modem that's there does work but seems to cap out at 14.4 (Driver issue?) the USB is a USRobotics and I've connected in the high
For $5 a month I can add unlimited America to my existing plan. May
end up doing that anyway as I have been calling more and more
american's for some reason.
Laugh, we're gonna go all out on this retro thing eh? ;)
I just sent you a netmail...let's hope it gets there. <G> I'll be out
of pocket from this afternoon (5 Feb) until Sunday evening (8 Feb) but
I will try to check my mail via the BBS.
Well, if you can get it to Bob Seaborn, or Mark Lewis,
I will get it ... , not
here yet ...
Well, if you can get it to Bob Seaborn, or Mark Lewis,
I will get it ... , not
here yet ...
My direct uplink is Janis Kracht, so I'm hoping it'll get to you.
Well, if it was capped at 26400 I'd say your phone lines were multiplexed,but
that sounds like a driver issue, yeah.
Wish I could get that for Canada-seems I'm gonna have to pay 7 cents aminute
here if I call you.
I need to use my USB modem as my BBS machine has no serial ports. The Internal modem that's there does work but seems to cap out at 14.4
(Driver issue?) the USB is a USRobotics and I've connected in the high 40's to my dialup internet account. (That I will probably never use
again as my cellphone is quicker) ;)
end up doing that anyway as I have been calling more and more american's for some reason.
I even have some people waiting for me to get POTS
for Micronet and Fidonet
too...would be rather fun to have that going again. :)
Laugh, we're gonna go all out on this retro thing eh? ;)
High 40's probably because your ISP's using digital modems on their end.
Laugh, we're gonna go all out on this retro thing eh? ;)Maybe you should set up an exclusive POTS-only network club.
25 cents per message.
Depends where you find yourself in the world ... :-)
Depends where you find yourself in the world ... :-)
May be in a cave and you want to connect to Fidonet?
Hello, SHAWN.
Wednesday February 04 2009 at 09:18, you wrote to me:
<Cough> As you know I just got around to switching back to Ma Bell
for my phone lines, and will be offering pots again here when I
finish hunting down the ring detector. <G>
If I still had one of my spare USR Couriers, I'd send you one of those-they can do distinctive ring built-in. I'm going to be using a ComStation 5500; a nice device that can pick up the phone, listen,
and know where to send the call to.
On the flip side, I need to learn how to set up the cost measuring
stuff in BT because it looks like while I can get unlimited US
calling, calls to Canada, Eh? are going to run me seven cents a
minute. Iffa you want, for Micronet, we could switch to POTS feed.
On the flip side, I need to learn how to set up the cost measuring
stuff in BT because it looks like while I can get unlimited US
calling, calls to Canada, Eh? are going to run me seven cents a
minute. Iffa you want, for Micronet, we could switch to POTS feed.
I use Alberto Pasquale's Fastlist/2 nodelist processor, the cost
tables are built
into its configuration file. I don't think Alberto supports any of
his old Fidonet
software anymore, and more's the pity, it's good stuff.
Make some good coin that way. It woudl cost probably under a tenth
of a cent to send a echomail message. Nothing wrong with using pots
if you have the service, some people like it. <shrug> Not like I'd
pay for a seperate phone line anymore...
May be in a cave and you want to connect to Fidonet?
I use Alberto Pasquale's Fastlist/2 nodelist processor, the cost
tables are built into its configuration file. I don't think Alberto supports any of his old Fidonet software anymore, and more's the pity, it's good stuff.
The only aggrevating thing is that the CS rings once before it
and then assigns the ring...never did figure out how to turn that off.
I hope i explained that right...
May be in a cave and you want to connect to Fidonet?
People in the US forget that not only are we severely behind in
broadband access, but not everyone in the world has unlimited
local/LD calling.
You did. However, in this house, it'd be a pain in the butt to have to do that.
Most places that are so far ahead of the US in broadband access are more densely populated. Broadband is *never* going to get out to rural America except for satellite links, which are too pricey for me
and I suspect for a lot of other folks.
Grumble. That's too bad, why can't things have always been wired a standard way so it was never a pain in the butt? ;)
One man's standard is another man's folly - just look at the so-calledFidonet
standards. <G>
Quoting Russell Tiedt to Kevin Klement <=-
In a cave, packet radio might do you better ... :-)
Russell
-!- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5
! Origin: Rusty's BBS - Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa
(5:7105/1)
Quoting Bob Ackley to Sean Dennis <=-
Replying to a message of Sean Dennis to SHAWN HIGHFIELD:
If I still had one of my spare USR Couriers, I'd send you one of those-they can do distinctive ring built-in. I'm going to be using a ComStation 5500; a nice device that can pick up the phone, listen,
and know where to send the call to.
Most places that are so far ahead of the US in broadband access are more densely populated. Broadband is *never* going to get out to rural America except for satellite links, which are too pricey for me and I suspect for a lot of other folks.
Would appreciate Bob..hearing more.....like who carrys it?
That might work ....if there were any packet radio BBSes still
on ...but there is no connection to FidoNet ...just other hams
reading along...if interested.
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