someone on here was talking about dialup over voip a while ago and I still find that funny
@dodec People have done it!
@Felthry That still sounds like it'd be terrible. Aren't VOIP systems heavily compressed and optimized for speech? What kind of bandwidth can you get out of hooking an acoustic modem to that?
@dodec I mean, dialup in the 80s was over lines optimised for speech, so...
@dodec It's just a matter of whether your compression is due to analog filters or digital ones! there's no way you're going to get DSL, of course, because that worked by bypassing some of those analog filters, but you can do dialup. I think you can even do full 56k.
@Felthry Yeah, I'm not doubting it could be done. Just morbidly curious how well it worked.
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Oh dear. Oh ... oh dear.
That just makes me wonder if that could be made to work.