Hello everyone,
I run Synchronet on a Raspberry Pi (mainly for my own enjoyment), but today I decided to pull out the the 'ol USR Sportster, cable (had to get a moderm USBS-Serial cable), config my Mac for everything, and dialup Vertrauen for some
old school dialup nostalgia. Plus figured it would be a good way to test everything.

Working okay so far, although a little laggy. I blame that on using MagicJack as my VOiP provider. Probably not the best QoS. Although I can fax stuff at 33.6 fine on this line.

Cheers!

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On 03/12/2015 01:46 PM, Misfit wrote:

Hello everyone,
I run Synchronet on a Raspberry Pi (mainly for my own enjoyment), but today I decided to pull out the the 'ol USR Sportster, cable (had to get a moderm USBS-Serial cable), config my Mac for everything, and dialup Vertrauen for some
old school dialup nostalgia. Plus figured it would be a good way to test everything.

Working okay so far, although a little laggy. I blame that on using MagicJack
as my VOiP provider. Probably not the best QoS. Although I can fax stuff at 33.6 fine on this line.

Cheers!

Do you have a phone number and/or a URL setup yet?
Or are you just going to tease us?

0_O

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Hello Misfit,

On 12 Mar 15 12:46, Misfit wrote to All:

Hello everyone,
I run Synchronet on a Raspberry Pi (mainly for my own enjoyment), but today I decided to pull out the the 'ol USR Sportster, cable (had to
get a moderm USBS-Serial cable), config my Mac for everything, and
dialup Vertrauen for some old school dialup nostalgia. Plus figured it would be a good way to test everything.

Working okay so far, although a little laggy. I blame that on using MagicJack as my VOiP provider. Probably not the best QoS. Although I
can fax stuff at 33.6 fine on this line.

It may not be your connection speed at all. Which Pi are you using? The single core, or dual? I'm guessing even the creators realized the single core was underpowered for them to come out with a dual core fairly soon after the fact.

Regards,
Nick

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Hello everyone,
I run Synchronet on a Raspberry Pi (mainly for my own enjoyment), but today I decided to pull out the the 'ol USR Sportster, cable (had to get a moderm USBS-Serial cable), config my Mac for everything, and dialup Vertrauen for some old school dialup nostalgia. Plus figured it would be a good way to test everything.

Working okay so far, although a little laggy. I blame that on using MagicJack as my VOiP provider. Probably not the best QoS. Although I can fax stuff at 33.6 fine on this line.

Cheers!

Doing a fax over a MagicJack sounds pretty darn impressive by itself! VOIP and Fax tend to hate each other.

~KenDB3

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Re: Re: Hello Everyone!
By: Accession to Misfit on Thu Mar 12 2015 05:11 pm

It may not be your connection speed at all. Which Pi are you using? The single core, or dual? I'm guessing even the creators realized the single core was underpowered for them to come out with a dual core fairly soon after the fact.

There are no dual-core Pis, only single and quad cores.

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Re: Re: Hello Everyone!
By: Gandolf to Misfit on Thu Mar 12 2015 06:03 pm

On 03/12/2015 01:46 PM, Misfit wrote:

Hello everyone,
I run Synchronet on a Raspberry Pi (mainly for my own enjoyment), but toda decided to pull out the the 'ol USR Sportster, cable (had to get a moderm USBS-Serial cable), config my Mac for everything, and dialup Vertrauen for old school dialup nostalgia. Plus figured it would be a good way to test everything.

Working okay so far, although a little laggy. I blame that on using Magic as my VOiP provider. Probably not the best QoS. Although I can fax stuff 33.6 fine on this line.

Cheers!

Do you have a phone number and/or a URL setup yet?
Or are you just going to tease us?

0_O

Nah. Nothing exciting here. I mainly just run it on a RPi so I can lurked the boards without having to telnet out to one of the real boards. If I get motivated and find the time, I will start customizing and making it unique and wothwhile. It has been decades since I've done that and unfortunetly my time these days is very limited.

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Re: Re: Hello Everyone!
By: Accession to Misfit on Thu Mar 12 2015 05:11 pm

Hello Misfit,

On 12 Mar 15 12:46, Misfit wrote to All:

Hello everyone,
I run Synchronet on a Raspberry Pi (mainly for my own enjoyment), but today I decided to pull out the the 'ol USR Sportster, cable (had to get a moderm USBS-Serial cable), config my Mac for everything, and dialup Vertrauen for some old school dialup nostalgia. Plus figured it would be a good way to test everything.

Working okay so far, although a little laggy. I blame that on using MagicJack as my VOiP provider. Probably not the best QoS. Although I can fax stuff at 33.6 fine on this line.

It may not be your connection speed at all. Which Pi are you using? The sing core, or dual? I'm guessing even the creators realized the single core was underpowered for them to come out with a dual core fairly soon after the fac

Regards,
Nick

Single core, however I was refering to calling out (dialuo) to Digital Man's BBS, not the Synchronet running on my RPi.

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Re: Re: Hello Everyone!
By: KenDB3 to Misfit on Thu Mar 12 2015 10:52 pm

Hello everyone,
I run Synchronet on a Raspberry Pi (mainly for my own enjoyment), but tod I decided to pull out the the 'ol USR Sportster, cable (had to get a mode USBS-Serial cable), config my Mac for everything, and dialup Vertrauen fo some old school dialup nostalgia. Plus figured it would be a good way to test everything.

Working okay so far, although a little laggy. I blame that on using MagicJack as my VOiP provider. Probably not the best QoS. Although I can fax stuff at 33.6 fine on this line.

Cheers!

Doing a fax over a MagicJack sounds pretty darn impressive by itself! VOIP a Fax tend to hate each other.

~KenDB3

Yeah. When I first got MJ years ago, I could only fax at 14.4 kb/s. Even then, sometimes it wouldn't go through. Now, however, I can fax reliabily at 33.6 kb/s. MJ must have improved their QoS.

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Re: Re: Hello Everyone!
By: Deuce to Accession on Fri Mar 13 2015 03:14 pm

Re: Re: Hello Everyone!
By: Accession to Misfit on Thu Mar 12 2015 05:11 pm

It may not be your connection speed at all. Which Pi are you using? The single core, or dual? I'm guessing even the creators realized the single core was underpowered for them to come out with a dual core fairly soon after the fact.

There are no dual-core Pis, only single and quad cores.

The RPi-2 is ony my list of "things to get around to eventually".

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On 03/13/15, Misfit said the following...

Re: Re: Hello Everyone!
By: Deuce to Accession on Fri Mar 13 2015 03:14 pm

Re: Re: Hello Everyone!
By: Accession to Misfit on Thu Mar 12 2015 05:11 pm

It may not be your connection speed at all. Which Pi are you using? single core, or dual? I'm guessing even the creators realized the si core was underpowered for them to come out with a dual core fairly s after the fact.

There are no dual-core Pis, only single and quad cores.

The RPi-2 is ony my list of "things to get around to eventually".

I've got a RPiB+, but I don't intend to get a RPi-2; I'm looking to get an ODROID U3

RPi2 ODROID U3
900MHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 CPU 1.7GHz quad core
1GB Ram 2GB Ram
$35 $69

Sure it costs 2x as much. But it has 2x as much under the hood too. It also run Android 4.4 :)

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Hello Deuce,

On 13 Mar 15 15:14, Deuce wrote to Accession:

Re: Re: Hello Everyone!
By: Accession to Misfit on Thu Mar 12 2015 05:11 pm

It may not be your connection speed at all. Which Pi are you using?
The single core, or dual? I'm guessing even the creators realized
the single core was underpowered for them to come out with a dual
core fairly soon after the fact.

There are no dual-core Pis, only single and quad cores.

Ah, thanks for that bit of info. I don't own a Pi, nor will I ever.. but was just trying to help him out. Looks like they made a smarter jump than what I originaly thought, at least. :)

Regards,
Nick

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Re: Re: Hello Everyone!
By: Gryphon to Misfit on Sat Mar 14 2015 10:41:00

Sure it costs 2x as much. But it has 2x as much under the hood too. It also run Android 4.4 :)

I'd think the OS alone is a good reason to axe that. :P

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Re: Re: Hello Everyone!
By: Gryphon to Misfit on Sat Mar 14 2015 10:41 am

I've got a RPiB+, but I don't intend to get a RPi-2; I'm looking to get an ODROID U3

RPi2 ODROID U3
900MHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 CPU 1.7GHz quad core
1GB Ram 2GB Ram
$35 $69

Sure it costs 2x as much. But it has 2x as much under the hood too. It als run Android 4.4 :)

Yeah. that board caught my eye also. If you don't mind, after you get it write about your impression and experience with it here. :-)

Even though I'm heavily in the Apple ecosystem, running something Android on a card would be fun and interesting.

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On 03/14/15, Khelair said the following...

Re: Re: Hello Everyone!
By: Gryphon to Misfit on Sat Mar 14 2015 10:41:00

Sure it costs 2x as much. But it has 2x as much under the hood too. also run Android 4.4 :)

I'd think the OS alone is a good reason to axe that. :P

That isn't the only OS it runs. It runs all ARM flavors of linux too. You
can get it with either Xubuntu or Android 4.4. But you can also install debian, fedora, arch, etc.

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Misfit wrote to All <=-

I run Synchronet on a Raspberry Pi (mainly for my own enjoyment), but today I decided to pull out the the 'ol USR Sportster, cable (had to
get a moderm USBS-Serial cable), config my Mac for everything, and
dialup Vertrauen for some old school dialup nostalgia. Plus figured it would be a good way to test everything.

Working okay so far, although a little laggy. I blame that on using MagicJack as my VOiP provider. Probably not the best QoS. Although I
can fax stuff at 33.6 fine on this line.

This rocks.

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Misfit wrote to Deuce <=-

The RPi-2 is ony my list of "things to get around to eventually".

My local computer store has started to carry Pis, cases and accessories. I might have to pick one up, now.



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KenDB3 wrote to Misfit <=-

Hello everyone,
I run Synchronet on a Raspberry Pi (mainly for my own enjoyment), but today I decided to pull out the the 'ol USR Sportster, cable (had to get a moderm USBS-Serial cable), config my Mac for everything, and dialup Vertrauen for some old school dialup nostalgia. Plus figured it would be a good way to test everything.

Working okay so far, although a little laggy. I blame that on using MagicJack as my VOiP provider. Probably not the best QoS. Although I can fax stuff at 33.6 fine on this line.

Cheers!

Doing a fax over a MagicJack sounds pretty darn impressive by itself!
VOIP and Fax tend to hate each other.

I used MagicJack exclusively as a phone for years. I did a lot of research while trying to use a modem on it, as well as fax. Turns out there are
special codecs that various VOIP providers use. The software detects what
type of audio it's trying to encode (data, fax, voice) and switches to use
a particular codec (if supported). I'm pretty sure MagicJack includes
the fax codec (I'm not currently in an area with Internet, so can't look
up what it's called), as the only time I had problems faxing was when I had
the local AT&T DSL with fairly high latency. Even then, I fiddled with my
fax settings (some sort of international mode, locked at low-speed, etc) and was able to send faxes.

Now, on the other hand, MagicJack hates modems. As far as I can tell, they don't include any support for them, which makes sense; why should they? On
the other hand, when I had a voice line with my cable company, I was able to connect with fairly impressive rates. Again, makes sense, since they're
trying to get lots of businesses to switch, and they have to support the ones with data modems. (Case in point: Waffle House's business software is still
all DOS based, and communicates nightly with corporate office (reminescent
of an FTN or QWK network, actually -- I'd love to dig into the scripts!).
Last year, for whatever reason, our local franchise decided to dump the phone company in favor of Time Warner Cable voice. We've had no problems with data transmission over VOIP.


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Re: Re: Hello Everyone!
By: Dreamer to KenDB3 on Tue Mar 17 2015 08:38 pm

KenDB3 wrote to Misfit <=-

Hello everyone,
I run Synchronet on a Raspberry Pi (mainly for my own enjoyment), but tod

ay

I decided to pull out the the 'ol USR Sportster, cable (had to get a mode

rm

USBS-Serial cable), config my Mac for everything, and dialup Vertrauen fo

r

some old school dialup nostalgia. Plus figured it would be a good way to test everything.

Working okay so far, although a little laggy. I blame that on using MagicJack as my VOiP provider. Probably not the best QoS. Although I can fax stuff at 33.6 fine on this line.

Cheers!

Doing a fax over a MagicJack sounds pretty darn impressive by itself! VOIP and Fax tend to hate each other.

I used MagicJack exclusively as a phone for years. I did a lot of research while trying to use a modem on it, as well as fax. Turns out there are special codecs that various VOIP providers use. The software detects what type of audio it's trying to encode (data, fax, voice) and switches to use
a particular codec (if supported). I'm pretty sure MagicJack includes
the fax codec (I'm not currently in an area with Internet, so can't look
up what it's called), as the only time I had problems faxing was when I had the local AT&T DSL with fairly high latency. Even then, I fiddled with my fax settings (some sort of international mode, locked at low-speed, etc) and was able to send faxes.

Now, on the other hand, MagicJack hates modems. As far as I can tell, they don't include any support for them, which makes sense; why should they? On the other hand, when I had a voice line with my cable company, I was able to connect with fairly impressive rates. Again, makes sense, since they're trying to get lots of businesses to switch, and they have to support the one

s

with data modems. (Case in point: Waffle House's business software is still all DOS based, and communicates nightly with corporate office (reminescent of an FTN or QWK network, actually -- I'd love to dig into the scripts!). Last year, for whatever reason, our local franchise decided to dump the phon

e

company in favor of Time Warner Cable voice. We've had no problems with data transmission over VOIP.

Interesting. That definetly explains why MJ works decently for faxing, but
not so well for modeming! Lag was pretty bad, something like zmodem definetly would not had worked.

All the best,
Misfit


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Re: Re: Hello Everyone!
By: Poindexter Fortran to Misfit on Tue Mar 17 2015 08:59 am

The RPi-2 is ony my list of "things to get around to eventually".

My local computer store has started to carry Pis, cases and accessories. I might have to pick one up, now.

I have a RPi in my CosmosEx, it's a device that lets you use USB devices and SD Cards for HDD emulation on an Atari ST. Thing freaking rocks, and you can still access the RPi for "other" things without removing it from the Atari.

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Interesting. That definetly explains why MJ works decently for faxing, but not so well for modeming! Lag was pretty bad, something like zmodem definetly would not had worked.

You're doing better than me. At least with the modem I have, I can't even maintain a low speed data connection for longer than a minute.


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Doing a fax over a MagicJack sounds pretty darn impressive by itself! VOIP and Fax tend to hate each other.

I used MagicJack exclusively as a phone for years. I did a lot of research while trying to use a modem on it, as well as fax. Turns out there are special codecs that various VOIP providers use. The software detects what type of audio it's trying to encode (data, fax, voice) and switches to use a particular codec (if supported). I'm pretty sure MagicJack includes the fax codec (I'm not currently in an area with Internet, so can't look up what it's called), as the only time I had problems faxing was when I had the local AT&T DSL with fairly high latency. Even then, I fiddled with my fax settings (some sort of international mode, locked at low-speed, etc) and was able to send faxes.

Now, on the other hand, MagicJack hates modems. As far as I can tell, they don't include any support for them, which makes sense; why should they? On the other hand, when I had a voice line with my cable company, I was able to connect with fairly impressive rates. Again, makes sense, since they're trying to get lots of businesses to switch, and they have to support the ones with data modems. (Case in point: Waffle House's business software is still all DOS based, and communicates nightly with corporate office (reminescent of an FTN or QWK network, actually -- I'd love to dig into the scripts!). Last year, for whatever reason, our local franchise decided to dump the phone company in favor of Time Warner Cable voice. We've had no problems with data transmission over VOIP.

I've heard of what you are talking about. It's a Fax over IP protocol (FoIP) called “T.38”. I've also heard a bit about Modem over IP (MoIP), but I don't think many companies implement it. I work for a Cable/Telco, and we have older phone switches that work very much like the old AT&T/Bell Labs stuff, but we also have more modern phone switches. In both cases we use a G.711 codec because it is PSTN standard toll quality for the calls. Also, the older switches still support circuit switched for some of our older equipment, as well as packet switched. The packet switched stuff is only packet while it moves across our backbone, it eventually hits the PSTN at some point and becomes standard circuit switched. That lets us prioritize any packet voice traffic over everything else while its on our network. I'm sure Time Warner is very similar in their architecture.

We don't, however, inspect customer's data packets and cannot tell the difference between their web browsing traffic and their Vonage or MagicJack traffic. So, we don't prioritize that voice traffic at all, which can affect those services if there is network congestion. With constant network improvements and speed increases overall (backbone as well as at the customer end), the stuff that affects VoIP quality (Jitter, Delay) starts to become less of a problem.

~KenDB3

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Re: Re: Hello Everyone!
By: Misfit to Dreamer on Wed Mar 18 2015 06:43 am

I decided to pull out the the 'ol USR Sportster, cable (had to get a mode
some old school dialup nostalgia. Plus figured it would be a good way
to test everything.

I could never go back to anolog. That would be like trading in my 2014 Honda for a Model T.

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