[Coco] Using a coco modem with VOIP

[Kevin Becker]

I've tried a magic jack with the built in modem of my Tandy 1400LT and
with a Modem 1B and and MC-10.  It worked a little bit but there was a
lot of data loss and it was hard to keep it going long enough to do
anything useful.
At work, when we migrated to a new phone provider last spring, I was
not aware that we had a POTS line from our old provider for our alarm
system.  So after the service was stopped we were in a scramble to get
something working in the short term before our security company could
upgrade us to an internet solution with a cellular backup.  I tried an
Ooma because it specifically had a "fax mode" but again, it worked a
bit but was unreliable.

On Mon, 2019-11-11 at 18:01 -0600, Dave Philipsen wrote:
> I imagine the thing about Magic Jack might be that since it is free
> (so I have heard) then they probably force one of the lower quality
> codecs with more compression.  Maybe that’s why it doesn’t want to
> work with the analog modem. 
> I was doing a bit of research on this and found that there is
> apparently some method designated as T38 for fax transmissions over
> VoIP. This apparently allows old analog fax machines to continue
> working on VoIP systems as long as you’re using VoIP equipment that
> supports T38. My guess is that something similar (if not the same)
> could work for connecting the old analog POTS modems to a VoIP
> system. It’s just that there probably isn’t much of a demand for that
> sort of thing since most people have abandoned the old analog
> modems. 
> 
> 
> > > On Nov 11, 2019, at 5:04 PM, Rod Barnhart <rod.barnhart at gmail.com
> > > > wrote:
> > I'll spare you the theory and lesson on codecs and jump to my
> > real-worldexperiences ;)
> > I used to have Time Warner Cable's "digital home phone" voip
> > solution andit worked fairly solid. Being on a private network
> > instead of having thetraffic on the Internet probably made a huge
> > difference. No clue whatcodecs they use internally, but I regularly
> > got a 53K connection to a BBS Iwas a member of that still had pots
> > lines, from a notebook that had aLucent WinModem built in. I did
> > zero tweaking of the init string to getthat connection. I simply
> > fired up a terminal program, set it to the propercomm port, and
> > dialed.
> > I got rid of that service because I didn't use it enough to justify
> > thecost, and picked up an Obihai OBI200, as it supports Google
> > Voice, and I'vehad an account forever ;) I no longer have the
> > notebook with the WinModemin it, so I thought I'd load Telix up on
> > one of my Tandy 1000SX's. Itconnected at 1200bps to the same BBS,
> > but, to be fair, I can't rememberwhich of my SX's has a 1200bps and
> > which has a 2400bps modem ;) Theconnection was still fairly solid.
> > Back in the day, when Vonage was still new and most people had not
> > gottenrid of their pots lines yet, I used Vonage with the Cisco ATA
> > they providedwith dial-up BBSes. Anything up to 9600bps seemed to
> > be fairly reliable,and it got less reliable as you went higher from
> > there.
> > I have not tried Magic Jack, though I've considered picking one up
> > just tosee what results I can get from it.
> > Rod
> > 
> > 
> > > > On 2019-11-11 11:09 a.m., rietveld rietveld wrote:
> > > > > Has anyone had any success using a dial up modem with a VOIP.
> > > > > I have
> > > not had any luck doing this using my magic jack. I would love to
> > > be able tosave the long distance charges
> > 
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