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   Hello Daryl!   
      
   ** 15.09.19 - 13:01, Daryl Stout wrote to MIKE POWELL:   
      
    DS>  As for cellphone service, I'm with Straight Talk, and it's the best   
    DS>cellphone package I've ever had...$50 a month with tax, and I get 25   
    DS>Gigabytes of data, before it gets throttled down..   
      
   That's a *very* nice package.  The closest I can get is $40 for 5GB until     
   it gets throttled down - with luckymobile.ca.   
      
      
    DS>  But back to the dial-up, those modems only really work with analog   
    DS>lines, and not with VoIP lines. Yet, I wonder what the fax machines are   
    DS>working with...since practically all the old analog lines are now   
    DS>digital/VoIP.   
      
   Is that what they call a "dry loop" line?   Here, a dry loop has to be     
   specifically ordered, otherwise a new phone line is a real POTS line.   
      
      
    DS>If there was a way to make that work, I'd put dial-up   
    DS>access back on the BBS...but I saw a comment from Rob Swindell (aka   
    DS>digital man), author of Synchronet, noting that "28.8 and 33.6 aren't as   
    DS>fast as you remember them".   
      
   Even 33.6 would seem like a crawl.  You are best to put the idea of a bbs     
   via dial-up out of your mind.  ;)   
      
      
     ../|ug   
      
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