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analog dialup modem phone number needed for line testing, usa
Anyone know of an analog dialup modem phone number
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analog dialup modem phone number needed for line testing, usa
On Sun, 18 May 2014 21:42:58 -0500, Paul in Houston TX
wrote: Anyone know of an analog dialup modem phone number that I can use for line testing? United States Years ago, some libraries still had BBSs. You could call their number and get their catalog of books. This was after the internet began. I dont know if this still works. Also, therei s a newsgroup which lists private BBSs. I guess a few of them still exist. try alt.bbs |
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Paul in Houston TX wrote:
Anyone know of an analog dialup modem phone number that I can use for line testing? United States Houston has a FreeNet. http://www.ghofn.org/info/registration-info.html I'm guessing 966-1234 is the modem pool, but without appropriate terminology being used, who can be sure ? That's not going to test PPP for you, without applying for an account. You'll likely get to some login prompt. And get to listen to the negotiation tones until you get there. Maybe you could test through Hyperterminal or something, just to see a prompt ? ******* The FreeNet name, used to mean free dialup networking with limited hours of usage a day. My local one back home, allowed at least 1 hour per day. If the modem pool was full, you could be booted after your hour was up. Using it late at night, you could usually get more than an hour from it. I have a FreeNet in my current city as well. The first year was "free", in the sense that I was asked for a "minimum donation" at the end of the year. So I closed the account. The only purpose of that account, was for checking my ADSL ISP web page, when the ADSL would drop. And I could not face a 45 minute phone queue wait, to find out how long it would take to fix. I could probably still use such a thing, but the outages since I lost access to my FreeNet account, haven't been more than 15 minutes. And there haven't been too many of them. ******* There might also be dialup ISPs that offer short trials. But then, that would have no long-term test possibilities, like if you wanted to test a modem two months from now. Paul |
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Paul in Houston TX wrote:
Anyone know of an analog dialup modem phone number that I can use for line testing? United States Thanks for everyone's suggestions. I had completely forgoten about BBS and ISP dialup numbers. Will find one that works from the lists and run Modemtest.exe and telnet when at the remote locations. And some of them are VERY remote! |
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Paul in Houston TX wrote:
Anyone know of an analog dialup modem phone number that I can use for line testing? NetZero still has free dial-up Internet service (obviously pretty slow). As I recall, there was a 10-month per quota cap. Searching for "free dial-up Internet" finds lots of such services. |
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On Sun, 18 May 2014 22:17:47 -0700, Paul in Houston TX
wrote: Paul in Houston TX wrote: Anyone know of an analog dialup modem phone number that I can use for line testing? United States Thanks for everyone's suggestions. I had completely forgoten about BBS and ISP dialup numbers. Will find one that works from the lists and run Modemtest.exe and telnet when at the remote locations. And some of them are VERY remote! Today, EVERYTHING, goes through digitizaion at the telco. Back in 70's, I found that the bandwidth was sharp edged at that '3kHz' upper limit for any call that went thru a trunk line. But call across the Bay Area? and you could easily shove a 10kHz square wave tone through the phone connection. |
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analog dialup modem phone number needed for line testing, usa
On 05/18/2014 09:19 PM, Paul wrote:
The FreeNet name, used to mean free dialup networking with limited hours of usage a day. My local one back home, allowed at least 1 hour per day. If the modem pool was full, you could be booted after your hour was up. Using it late at night, you could usually get more than an hour from it. I have a FreeNet in my current city as well. The first year was "free", in the sense that I was asked for a "minimum donation" at the end of the year. So I closed the account. The only purpose of that account, was for checking my ADSL ISP web page, when the ADSL would drop. And I could not face a 45 minute phone queue wait, to find out how long it would take to fix. I could probably still use such a thing, but the outages since I lost access to my FreeNet account, haven't been more than 15 minutes. And there haven't been too many of them. We had a freenet here locally that offered a free dialup terminal account, and a $10/month PPP dialup account. The phone lines were given priority to the PPP users, of course, but back in the early days of the web, when most information was usenet and email, it was a really great thing to have. I became rather adept at using lynx and hterminal to download binary files, back when webpages were rather simple things to navigate with a text browser. Jon |
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analog dialup modem phone number needed for line testing, usa
On 05/18/2014 10:54 PM, VanguardLH wrote:
Paul in Houston TX wrote: Anyone know of an analog dialup modem phone number that I can use for line testing? NetZero still has free dial-up Internet service (obviously pretty slow). As I recall, there was a 10-month per quota cap. Searching for "free dial-up Internet" finds lots of such services. I looked into that last year, but although the page stating it are still up, they no longer have free dialup. Clicking the link gets you to a page stating, "Thank you for your interest in NetZero. The offer you clicked on is no longer available. Please select one of our newest offers providing excellent value", which shows broadband only service. IIRC, it was a year two or so ago when they pulled it. Jon |
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On 5/19/2014 10:18 AM, Jon Danniken wrote:
On 05/18/2014 10:54 PM, VanguardLH wrote: Paul in Houston TX wrote: Anyone know of an analog dialup modem phone number that I can use for line testing? NetZero still has free dial-up Internet service (obviously pretty slow). As I recall, there was a 10-month per quota cap. Searching for "free dial-up Internet" finds lots of such services. I looked into that last year, but although the page stating it are still up, they no longer have free dialup. Clicking the link gets you to a page stating, "Thank you for your interest in NetZero. The offer you clicked on is no longer available. Please select one of our newest offers providing excellent value", which shows broadband only service. IIRC, it was a year two or so ago when they pulled it. I just checked my free dialup NetZero account and I'm still listed as a free user. But no, it appears new accounts can't get free accounts anymore. But here is where you find the dialup numbers. http://my.netzero.net/s/numbers -- Bill Gateway M465e ('06 era) - Kingston 120GB SSD - Thunderbird v24.4.0 Centrino Core2 Duo T7400 2.16 GHz - 4GB - Windows 8.1 Pro w/Media Center |
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On 05/19/2014 08:29 AM, BillW50 wrote:
On 5/19/2014 10:18 AM, Jon Danniken wrote: On 05/18/2014 10:54 PM, VanguardLH wrote: Paul in Houston TX wrote: Anyone know of an analog dialup modem phone number that I can use for line testing? NetZero still has free dial-up Internet service (obviously pretty slow). As I recall, there was a 10-month per quota cap. Searching for "free dial-up Internet" finds lots of such services. I looked into that last year, but although the page stating it are still up, they no longer have free dialup. Clicking the link gets you to a page stating, "Thank you for your interest in NetZero. The offer you clicked on is no longer available. Please select one of our newest offers providing excellent value", which shows broadband only service. IIRC, it was a year two or so ago when they pulled it. I just checked my free dialup NetZero account and I'm still listed as a free user. But no, it appears new accounts can't get free accounts anymore. But here is where you find the dialup numbers. http://my.netzero.net/s/numbers Neat, so you're grandfathered in? Jon |
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Jon Danniken typed: On 05/19/2014 08:29 AM, BillW50 wrote: On 5/19/2014 10:18 AM, Jon Danniken wrote: On 05/18/2014 10:54 PM, VanguardLH wrote: Paul in Houston TX wrote: Anyone know of an analog dialup modem phone number that I can use for line testing? NetZero still has free dial-up Internet service (obviously pretty slow). As I recall, there was a 10-month per quota cap. Searching for "free dial-up Internet" finds lots of such services. I looked into that last year, but although the page stating it are still up, they no longer have free dialup. Clicking the link gets you to a page stating, "Thank you for your interest in NetZero. The offer you clicked on is no longer available. Please select one of our newest offers providing excellent value", which shows broadband only service. IIRC, it was a year two or so ago when they pulled it. I just checked my free dialup NetZero account and I'm still listed as a free user. But no, it appears new accounts can't get free accounts anymore. But here is where you find the dialup numbers. http://my.netzero.net/s/numbers Neat, so you're grandfathered in? Apparently. They claim I have been signed up since 1999 which sounds about right. I don't think I have used it more than 15 hours in the past 15 years though. I used it mainly for a backup in case the broadband died. -- Bill Gateway M465e ('06 era) - Kingston 120GB SSD - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2 Centrino Core2 Duo T5600 1.83GHz - 4GB - Windows XP SP2 |
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