Making A Home Dialup ISP - Paul's Old Crap #3

[Music] [Music] [Music] in this episode of Paul's old crap we're going to simulate a dial-up ISP and have various old computers dial into a router for internet access to get things started we need to ask ourselves what is a modem the word modem comes from modulator demodulator and its purpose is to allow for digital transmissions over analog lines dial-up modems work over standard phone lines and have evolved over the years to reach the maximum allowable bandwidth of 56 kilobits per second not counting the use of text or image compression these days cable and DSL modems are probably the most common for internet access leaving legacy dial-up modems for people out of range of these services here's a look at the kinds of dial-up modems I have in my collection alright so what I've got here is a pile of modems I'm just gonna go over the different types of modems that I've collected over the years and yeah starting off this is a global village modem this one is I think it's called a Geo port is the plug that it uses it actually draws its power from the the specific port on the Macintosh computer this one it's teleport gold 2 for Macintosh Performa so you'll notice it doesn't actually have a power switch or a spot for a power adapter it's just the interface cable and spot for the phone lines move on to this one which is the standard type of modem a this is the equal village teleport Platinum so this one is just a regular serial cable on the back of the Mac and it does have the plug for the power adapter which I've got here and the actual power switch this particular modem I've actually had this for probably about 20 years it was a going-away gift from a friend of mine as I was leaving Coover I think in like 1997 or 1998 and I used this extensively on my old Mac at the time and actually hosted hotline servers and various things on a private phone line I had my house so yeah this is a 2008 modem and I really really like this so I'm gonna probably hang on to this forever you know just play around with it sometimes like I've been doing with this project here this one is a u.s. robotics 14 4 fax modem I don't have the power plug or the interface plug for this so I'll probably never be able to use it I'm not too sure where I even got this from u.s. robotics is one of the more well-known names for modems so this is just a neat piece of history to have this one I think it's my oldest modem it's an Apple modem and it's basically just called modem so I'm not entirely sure what speed this is if I had to venture at guests I might say 300 actually it says here modem 1200 so like a 1200 bps modem I guess I don't have the this is a very weird type of power plug it's just like three pins in there I don't have that nor do I have this cable I'm not even sure if this was made for the Macintosh or the Apple 2 but this is probably a rare piece of hardware so even though I can't use it I'm gonna hang on to this for a while this one here I it's another Macintosh modem this is a super Express 33 6 modem interesting thing about this one is it uses the standard serial plug but it also gets its power from ADB so you don't actually need a separate power adapter for this you just plug both of these in the back your computer and it's got the ADB pass-through so if you're using a desktop computer and you've got your keyboard mouse you can still plug it in here and plug this into the back of the computer for its power talking about PC card modems I've got three here I've got an IBM 14 for data fax modem another one here just as modem 33.6 I've never heard of whatever company this is supposed to be these two PC card modems here they've got little kind of plugs that are inside here and that requires you to have a dongle cable which goes from here directly into the phone line I'm sure I've got one of those kicking around here somewhere but this is the modem I prefer to actually use this is a megahertz 14 4 modem and I use this because it has the jack built into the PC card so this is a very convenient modem and it's got a lot of compatibility you'll see this in the video I'll be using this card a lot it just seems to work pretty much without any drivers or anything like that just plug it in and dial other kind of modems I've got here these are internal modems so this small one here this is a Macintosh modem and it uses the com slot that's on some of my old Macintosh computers typically on some old Macs you might have like a one pds slot for you know maybe a network card and then you've got a comm slot next to it which can be used also for a network card or for modems so this this I think generally is found in a lot of the older perform of you ters so I do actually have an old performer that does have one of these in its calm slot as well this is a PCI modem I think generally this would be for a like a windows-based computer now this is a full type modem it's not what's referred to as a win modem a win modem you would see a lot less circuitry on the board as it relies on the operating system to do a lot of its processing so this is basically like a full modem you've got like little speaker thingamajig in here and it's noticeably more on the noticeably more circuits here than a win modem I don't actually have a win modem nor am i planning to ever get one this would be a lot more convenient for compatibility in old computers so I'll hang on to this and probably use it for one of my old computer builds or something like that this last one I'm not even sure if this can be used as an actual modem or it was designed to control like a large phone system yeah this is a it's an iced up board it's got its own little processor and RAM on here it does have the phone port and the line port this one it just it does say it's a fax modem card slash tell a copy or modem card so I I don't really know the details about this if I take what it's got for its model number and other numbers like that and Google for information I think the only thing that comes up is like sort of FCC document which really tells me nothing so it's not likely I'll be able to find any real information or drivers or anything like that but because this is such an odd board I think I'll just hang on to it for a while I don't know if I'll ever get around to do anything with it though so aside from that the only other modems I have are what I've got in like my Cisco router here so I've got a modem interface card in there and then below that I do have this other remote access device which has modem modules one type of modem I don't have is an acoustic coupler which is kind of like two suction cups that you would put your phone receiver on to so generally it's a fairly old type of modem you I wouldn't mind having one of those but it's not really in line with my interests so if I stumble across one of those at some point I might buy it but other than that that was my motive collection as were attempting to simulate a dial-up ISP we also need to discuss the modem which will be at the other end of the line the modem which will need to answer the call from the client while you could simply use another computer with a modem configured to be a remote access server I'm going to use a Cisco 1760 router with a wick to am module to provide Internet service to the client I'll now take you through a basic dial-up server configuration using the cisco router and modem module alright so this is my Cisco 1760 router and if we take a look at what software i've got installed on here it's essentially the enterprise 12 point for iOS package so we're going to do in this part of the video is do a basic configuration on the cisco router and allow it to answer the phone calls from the modem clients to configuration mode first thing we do change our authentication to new model I'm not too sure exactly what this command does I did notice that it does change a bit how the router authenticates users and this is required for this next command which is the authentication for the PDP defaults if needed and local this will allow the cisco router to authenticate our point-to-point protocol users using the internal users which is what I'm going to do next I'm going to make a username one two three and its password is going to be one two three and that's how all of my dial-up clients will authenticate next up I am going to create a loopback address this is an IP address that the async interface will use for itself instead of defining the IP address right on interface I've been reading a lot of documents on how to do the dial-up configurations and it seemed like a lot of the examples used this way instead of doing an IP directly on the async interface so what we're going to do is specify an IP address for my async interface with a slash between I and netmask on the loopback now we go over to our async 2 interface which is the modem that I've got the line connected to so it will need an IP address but we do IP unnumbered and then loopback 0 which tells the router loopback 0 has the IP address for to the async interface or something along those lines now by default the encapsulation on the async 2 interface was to slip we're not going to use slip we're going to use the point-to-point protocol so change that to PPP and we're going to change our async mote dedicated there's another option here for interactive but this is the only thing this thing is doing is answering the PPP calls if you're doing interactive I think that allow for switch I don't know but this is all it's doing so we're just gonna say it's dedicated we're also going to enable this async default routing this I think allows the async interface to communicate with dynamic routing protocols which is not something we're doing here or we're just going to enable this anyway it may or may not be required but who cares this command tells any peers that call up this is their IP address now there's a couple options here if you wanted to do a IP pool or DHCP in my case here with this router there's only going to be one client calling it at any time so giving it a single IP address to use it is perfectly fine doesn't really matter next up this is where we define our PPP authentication there's a couple options here the ones that I've actually tested and we're successful with are a chap and pap so these are the ones we're going to enable there is mschap but when I was using Windows 95 to dial up into this router for testing the standard chap I think just seemed to work so that's what we're gonna roll with one other option here is I see our sorry IP TCP header compression this is an option that I did see enabled by default on some of my dial-up clients so by enabling the compression on the server this might allow header compression to actually occur if it doesn't I don't really care it's not going to stop the call from from dialing in so having it enabled as far as I know isn't going to hurt anything it still worked just fine before and after I had this thing enabled there was a bunch of other options I was looking at like compress options I had tried with compress predictor it really screwed up everything nothing was working properly I was also looking at kind of like a predictive mode on some of these PPP protocols here so the router would kind of like anticipate the clients message through PPP but that didn't seem to really help anything I think I had a lot of problems with the PPP negotiation calls were dropped so we're going with the the bare minimum essentially to get the router to answer calls so all of that we're just going to leave but next up we have to actually go and configure our line interface because without this configuration the modem won't actually answer the call it ring forever here is where we tell it its purpose this modem is only accepting dial-in there's a few other options in here if you were having your modem do calls inbound and outbound you would do in out but that's not what this modem is doing it's only accepting calls so we leave it as modem dialing another thing we're just going to enable here for fun because it won't hurt is we're just going to set the auto configure options on the modem for defaults I don't really know what this does but I did see and noted on some examples online so we're just gonna throw it in there this next command I don't think is actually going to be required because as soon as you hit enter it says oh it doesn't work with the async mode dedicated has to be interactive but we're using dedicated and oh it's useless I don't care it was in the examples we're throwing it in there I think because the interface is set a dedicated and syn capsulation is PPP we don't need to tell the line that it might be PPP it is going to be PPP so yes whatever anyway what we're going to do is take a look at our configuration so far we've got the new model we've got our authentication method and we go down we do have our username one two three in our password one two three we have our loopback interface with the IP address that will be used by the modem for itself and we do have our async two modem interface and it's got its unnumbered configuration for loopback zero the encapsulation they had a compression dedicated mode the peer default IP address for our client dying in the authentication and it's routing dynamic enabled but that won't really be in use anyway when a client calls in they'll be assigned this IP address from this line and I do also have a default static route so all traffic through the router goes to my next hop which is the main router from this is on the fast ethernet interface that's on the Cisco router so all traffic that comes through the modem then goes out the Ethernet interface over to my home router anyway continuing on we'll take a look at our line to configuration it is modem dialing we've got our auto configure type on there and the auto select PPP does show up even though it's it was complaining about the command and the fact that the mode was dedicated not interactive who cares it's there these three lines these are just default on the line interface so we will leave those like that and I don't believe we've written our configuration yet so we're going to go ahead and write this to memory just in case the power goes out and it takes all of our hard work away any day now there we go so this Cisco router is now configured to answer phone calls and I think we're going to get to that shortly excellent so if you're wondering what it is that we just configured it is this this is the Cisco 1760 router these are pretty cheap on eBay I think this particular one I think I've owned for probably a few years now I don't recall paying more than maybe $30 for it and then in this slot here this is the WIC two AM modem module I've also got a t1 module in here which I used for some other labs it does also have some spare slots for voice related add-ons but getting into voice wasn't really something I was looking at so yeah just for lab purposes I did buy this and the modem card some time ago didn't really expect I'd do a whole lot with it but here it is on top of that I do have just a standard Cisco Catalyst switch this is a twenty nine sixty it's 10 100 ports for the most part couple of gig ports I needed to bring this in here because of the number of Ethernet ports I did need for all of the the stuff that's here these here are my grand stream HT 701 a TAS so one of these has the phone cable that comes all the way out down to the mystical rabbit here the other one the cable goes somewhere but it's usually when I'm testing on my laptop I've got it sitting on here and that's the modem that goes to this one here the very bottom you see this thing this is a three comm remote access server this is something I was going to originally test out for this project unfortunately it seems that this unit is a piece of junk I did what do a lot of steps to get the firmware on this unit updated this thing is incredibly old the latest firmware I think the release date was like 2000 or 2001 or something hilarious like that it was a pain to get that thing installed and the end result is that it still wouldn't negotiate my incoming calls so essentially I just gave up for now I mean it's a neat thing it's got like four analog modems inside of it and you do have your land port with Ethernet it's also got a wide area network port this is like an old serial type connection that I do happen to have on another Cisco router here in my house I've got a a large Cisco VXR router that has the same serial interface maybe one day I'll get to building a hilarious giant lab of some sort but yeah like this thing uses a horrible web interface as well and the command line is just so terrible so that's why I ended up going with the the Cisco router for this purpose the next step will be setting up a virtual PBX and pair of a TAS allowing us to connect our analog modems if you happen to have two analog phone lines in your house provided by your local phone company you can skip all of this I figure most homes may only have one analog phone line or in my case I don't have any for my project I chose a PBX solution called 3cx and attached a pair of grande stream HT 701 analog telephone adapters I'll also note that this experiment relies on having the locally hosted PBX to handle everything attempting to use modems over commercial VoIP service more than likely won't work very well as providers typically use compression and low bandwidth encoders since voice alone requires far less bandwidth than a modem without an external service we're limited to attaching the modems to the PBX as extensions and then having one dial the other now let's take a look at 3cx with our modem extensions alright so there were a couple solutions I was looking at for my hosted PBX this one is 3cx this wasn't my first choice I was actually hoping to work with I think free PBX or one of those like asterisk back-end type systems because I really have no idea what the backend of this is but yeah getting with the the free PBX it was there was a lot of complicated settings especially for someone who didn't really have a lot of phone experience so I wasn't getting anywhere that quickly I did get my extensions set up and there was some strange problems where they would unregister themselves and one of my grands cream a TAS actually seemed to fry itself at some point so things were really not looking up for me and I was just searching around and I found 3cx and I decided to install this basically all you do is you just kind of go to this try area fill out your name and all that information it tells you that they'll give you like free cloud hosting and stuff like that I mean like I didn't care about that I just wanted the actual iso to download so you fill out the information you'll get the download link for the install iso which i think is like a Red Hat based system when you actually boot boot up it I think I've just used a solder into a virtual machine they will have to email you like a trial license key of some sort so make sure you do put your actual email address and so yeah you just boot up the boot up the ISO do a default install it does the rest for you when it finally comes up it will give you an interface that looks something like this if we go to our dashboard I've had this system up here for I think maybe a week or two it's got like you know all of this setup that was trying to do for external access I I didn't care about any of that so that didn't really matter I just threw some random junk in there the main thing that I was looking for is getting my extension set up so this is a fairly default install of the 3cx software I don't think I've actually changed any settings at all in here as soon as I completed the default install I immediately started poking through down here and I noticed there is this option here called FAQs extensions now this I mean obviously I'm not using a fax machine but I'm not necessarily using a voice phone either so what I decided to do is set up my two atas as fax extensions considering they were going to be modems calling each other so there's one thing that I'll mention that limits the extension number to five characters which on I was looking at free PBX and I could like I could pretend to have like a full seven digit phone number which was kind of neat for hearing all of the dialing tones but this has a five character limit so we have to settle for a five what I've done is I just generated two extensions under here with random numbers there's really not much that you need to configure so if you look at adding an extension make up an extension number the authentication ID I used the same number for the extension for the sake of simplicity and then for a password I just used like the word password with that number after it because I mean I'm not really concerned about security for this this is just like all a bunch of fun and pointless stuff so yeah so that creates your two extensions once that's done we'll pop over to my this is one of my grand stream atsc HT 701 it's I haven't really changed any settings in here as soon as I plugged it in dhcp don to my network so as soon as it came up i logged in so if we look at the Advanced Settings I mean there's really nothing I've configured yeah I'm not doing any SSL related stuff none of that doesn't matter go over to X or the FX s port there we go this IP address you throw in here this is the IP of the 3cx virtual machine that I deployed plus that in there so my sip user ID two nine six four one if we pop back to this screen here this is indeed one of the fax extensions and the extension number and the authentication ID both at same number so when we pop back to the granstream occasion ID is that number as well now the password shows up as blank here because it's already saved and it's purposely not displayed by I enter the password which was like password 12 or some random crap like that threw it in there the rest of these settings on this particular screen I haven't changed anything it's still set to standard UDP mostly these other options or all the defaults yeah by default I think PCM you will be your top vocoder these two are the better ones either or that you'd want to use they are the I think like the highest bandwidth and lowest compressed ones so these have the highest chance of letting a modem talk to another modem without having the whole thing get garbled up so yeah Rusty's options yeah I think this is all the default this particular ata this was I bought this just recently it was brand new in box so when I powered it up I did a firmware update and I think everything else in here was unchanged and when you go to the Status page it does say that my extension is registered to the PBX and it's all good my extensions are all there go down yep here's my 280 A's and they're both registered so this was definitely the easiest way to do it I think I would have liked to demo like free PBX with the asterisk back-end but I think that would probably make this an extremely long video and I would have had to do a lot more research myself I just wanted to simply deploy this as easy as possible I didn't want to hassle with configurations or anything like that I just wanted to get one modem calling another modem how hard could that possibly be well it turns out it was really difficult until I ran into this so yeah 3cx with the grams drive they've got basically the pair of Grand stream HT 701 s I was trying to use I had an HT 701 and if it was an HT 486 the 486 ata that I had it was an older model and yeah it like fried itself after a bunch of my tests so I did have to pick up another one of these seven Oh ones so far they are working good the modems negotiate decent speeds so yeah surprisingly this is uh this is working out so yeah if you're trying to deploy this yourself using the 3cx free trial whatever and the grand scream hd7 oh ones yeah it seems that this just basically works sort of pretty much get started with our adventures of dial-up I'm going to be using the Apple Macintosh power book 180 this is fairly decent laptop it's a 33 megahertz 68030 processor I believe this unit has been slightly upgraded it's got I think 14 megabytes of RAM and like a 500 megabyte hard drive five so it's a pretty decent specs for its time now this particular laptop does actually have an internal modem which has been added however I'm actually going to be running the supera Express 33 6 modem in this particular test this is the one that actually has a standard serial port and it gets this power from the ADB port on the back of the computer so pretty neat modem so yeah we're gonna get set up with this modem and test our dial-up modems alright so what the Mac boot it up now this Mac is running system seven point six point one so for the pvp connectivity it does actually use open transport for its networking there's older versions of the Mac system software where you had to use like Mac TCP and free PPP I don't necessarily have a whole lot of old Mac's that run like system 7.0 or 7.1 so for this example we are going to be using open transport which works out good because one of the applications I'm going to test later actually requires open transport so what we're gonna do now is I've got the modem placed up here we've got the extension number of five for 837 entered into the dialer and my username and password one two three has been entered and let's give this a go [Music] and as you can see there we do have PPP negotiation at a decent modem speed yeah well you're essentially dialed up into our own router so I think coming up next I'll demonstrate some old applications kind of give you an idea of what a typical laptop user might have been doing back on dial-up internet days alright so hopefully this shows up okay um we're just going to take a look at a few applications I've got here starting off with probably one of the more popular types of applications this is the web browser we're gonna run netscape navigator 4.0 okay now home netscape comm is not found no we're gonna try going to a website i keep running for purposes such as this it's all texan it.org well this is super slow finally it's still loading sometime I think it's finally done now so this is like a extreme basic HTML page yeah it's just barely able to keep the animated images that are going so yeah this is a site that I just keep running specifically to test old machines and browsers if we tried going to Google and Netscape 4 it would look horrible so I don't get I mean gonna bother so I mean back in these days if you want web browsing you might be using different programs let's take a look at another one here hotline client this is uh this is a big one for me back in the late 90s I was actually running a hotline server from my old Mac on a dial-up connection that I had on a private phone line in my house so hopefully a launch up the hotline client and if you go through the bookmarks that come with every hall and client actually if you pick me when this is lawful Mac this will still take you to a public server that I keep running that's why connect there we go greenie comes up so I mean this was uh this was hot line back in the day you had a news thing here where you know people could post essentially whatever they want had your users list here this is me I'm the PowerBook 180 a chat window here public chat and have to pop open into the files really remember it being this slow but it very well could have been I think my modem dropped my call it says it's connected however the modem light oh there it goes you've been disconnected Oh excellent ah that's hotline I can't just be closed oh no all right well it's not much to see in Hall in anyway I wanted to do is better reconnect again all right well let's not waste time uh another app were to take a look at yeah this is turbo gopher uh you're not likely to find a whole lot of gopher servers still running but I do happen to have one if we drop into gopher da tall Texan that.org and this obviously didn't turn out quite how I expected it to but yeah this is an actual gopher server that is publicly running um there's not a whole lot of content in the server although there is a full mirror of text files calm this is a mirror that's maintained by one of my websites so yeah you can access all of text files calm right through my gopher server I don't see any reason why you'd want to do that but the option is there for you so yeah that's I think I think it's interesting okay we're gonna take a look at FTP right now we're using a program called fetch yeah I remember using this for FTP way back in the 90s so I've got here is I've got a public FTP server FTP to Atlas tunnel tech so net ah got a bunch of stuff we can do in here we're gonna do if we're to the images computer let's go to [Music] well I'm gonna download a picture of it's a Quadra 700 to get this file and we'll save this to the desktop where'd my file go come on come on this is that I'll drag that into the web browser yeah and these days everything was slow I mean I'm reading an image off of the hard drive in the web browser and it's going up modem speeds so yeah this is a picture of Macintosh quad you're 700 I downloaded it from my own FTP server over dial up on the PowerBook 180 everything you want to do it just takes so long so I don't think people might be doing is remote administration of servers so if we open up in CS a telnet and let's say I want to connect to there is a SGI indy and then i own IP address what i bought my house here try telling to it okay so we've got our UNIX login so yeah that's kind of neat basically just have a telnet session established with a SGI indy that i've got in the other room there so if you are doing remote administration of the system and do anything like this and here's me logged in as root and this is the IP address that we previously discussed in the router configuration 1 7 2016 dot 10.2 so yeah basically just an example of how we've got the routing through the cisco router to this other southern machine that got snow yep pretty neat for a mobile computing so the next computer we're gonna demonstrate is a Toshiba Pentium laptop and it's got windows 95 installed and this unit does not have an on-board modem so we do have a PC card modem which is in the slot here and then we've got the cable that runs back over to the ATA so this is Windows 95 and naturally it uses its built-in dial-up networking to handle the network connections so let's take a look at that so for the dial-up settings uh one thing I did know to before when we were doing the router configuration there is right down here there is an option that says use IP header compression I believe that is the option that the Cisco router had available when we were doing that configuration the TCP header compression so this is enabled by default it seems because I didn't manually enable that so potentially when I dial into the router from this computer there might actually be that level of compression though I'm not entirely sure I did notice there is another thing here where it says enable software compression I don't know if that has anything to do with the connection to the router or not like I said I did run into problems when I was doing the other levels of compression on me the Cisco router so whether or not that actually works or not I have idea so let's just cancel on this go back to the actual connection so same thing username and password one two three got my extension in there and let's stop us up for some reason it doesn't actually give you all of the sounds of the modem this logging on America thing might be a Microsoft specific thing I think if you don't enable that it might still work I'm not entirely sure I think that's if you were trying to use like Microsoft file-sharing or something over the connection anyway we are connected at 14 4 which is the speed of the modal nuts inside of the the PC card slot if we go over to my command screen I was testing this earlier let's do a google ping test and yeah we're getting like 380 400 millisecond ping times so you know it's it is slow another thing we're going to do is we're actually going to open Internet Explorer 5 it's gonna try loading MSN which I really do not want it to do ah here we go I'm gonna look at Google because I have tested this before Google actually decently renders in Internet Explorer 5 and it's kind of surprising that yeah and let's say I want to search for Paul's old crap Oh could be insecure Oh No see what comes up ah got some Paul's old crap stuff here the wiki and obviously we're now into whatever the hell this stuff is but oh you can see my last video is actually in the results here Apple UNIX on the Mac SC 30 let's scroll any further it might just turn into the Apostle Paul uses the word okay so a bunch of just garbage then that's neat um unfortunately I don't have any other Windows computers I would have liked to demonstrate trumpet windsock oh I'm like a 486 with windows 3.11 unfortunately my windows build or my 46 build isn't quite ready yet had some problems with getting video working on the board so I don't have a 3.11 build so yeah Windows 95 does the dial-up as just as good as the the Mac did I think so ah I'll see what else I can dial up now alright so another system I have here is my Apple Macintosh power book 3400 this unit does come with a built-in modem but for this experiment I'm going to use the 14 for PC card modem that I also used in the windows 95 laptop when the card is inserted and Mac OS 9 actually gives you an icon on the desktop so it's the XJ 1144 and it opens up the modem control panel where you specify it's that specific card and modem type megahertz cruise card 14 for I think that either is or the closest match to it so we're gonna head and close out the motor control panel one difference between this system and the PowerBook 180 that we were testing this out with instead of calling this control panel PPP is now referred to as a remote access as you can see it looks almost identical to the PPP control panel but they basically just changed a few things around so now it's remote access instead so we've already got our one two three user and the extension number in there we're gonna go ahead and call it [Music] so as you can see we are connected and I'm not going to demo too much in here but I do have a copy of Internet Explorer 5 for the Macintosh and just gonna take a look at going to Google so it does load and renders the page you know fairly accurately much like it was on the windows 95 system which was also Internet Explorer 5 I mean there's not really a whole lot LC to do here I mean I could try going to YouTube nope anything with SSL that's pretty much not going to work so I mean you can still do actual Google searches but yeah you're you're really not gonna be going anywhere else on these old systems unfortunately so the last system we're gonna look at today is the Apple Newton message pad 2000 this particular unit picked up on eBay a long long time ago and its previous owner had dial-up information already set up in there I think it was previously used at like NASA was interesting seeing all information stolen there unfortunately it's not quite working out as I expected I'm gonna have to like reformat the whole thing or something like that but for now I'll just demonstrate how the modem actually works though I won't be able to make it connect to the internet I'm doing here it's just a standard PC card modem this is the same card I used on the laptop demonstrations so what's the card is inserted it'll tell us that a communications device has been inserted sure so this is the tricky part the internet program that I had on here it it's basically throwing errors all over the place so all I'm really going to do is just get this thing to place a call because oh just a lot of calls ah let's see let's call a number number we're going to call is the extension so that would be five four eight three seven was that placed the call and we're going to place it using the modem yes that is correct and call I don't really need the area code so hung up the call because obviously it's not going to do anything this program is expecting a voice response I'm not able to currently set up the internet on here that'll be done I think for a later video I do specifically about the mutant but this is just a demonstration of the mutants ability to use a modem and then calling through the ATS that we have over here would have been nice to really get this going it's got a web browser already in here but yeah I don't know I don't have that much experience with the mutants so it's going to be something I will look in at a later date in conclusion making your own home dial-up ISP is easy to do assuming you'll already have all the required hardware sitting around like I do there's really no practical use for this setup unless you've got old computers which don't support any other networking I did enjoy getting this project done though as it reminded me of my early internet days in the 90s to wrap things up here's some screenshots of legacy dial-up services with some inspirational music playing in the background [Music] [Music] [Music] you

Channel: Paul's Crap

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Keywords: modem, dialup, dialup internet, isp, prodigy, compuserve, cisco, router, 3cx, voip, grandstream, aol, pbx, ppp, macintosh, retro, windows 95, dial up, powerbook

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Length: 53min 54sec (3234 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 22 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/fwork]

Ooh, awesome! I'd thought about doing something like this but wasn't sure where to start. Can't wait to watch.

[u/tecnoir]

Excellent work! :-)

Prior to hacking up my US Robotics modem to stick a Raspberry Pi inside and run a PPP server, I had toyed with wiring up two modems and actually doing 'properly'. You've gone for doing it even more properly.

[u/awesomefacepalm]

Totally saving this!

[u/wayn123]

This is something I always wanted to try, thanks.

[u/istarian]

Neat single board computer? there...

[u/Knuckx]

I've done something awfully close to this recently. My version is somewhat simpler though:

A Cisco 1721 with a WIC-1AM and a Grandstream HT502 configured such that it back-to-backs between the two analog ports regardless of what is dialled. No PBX/softswitch required, just the two boxes sat on top of each other. The HT502 doesn't even need an ethernet connection!

My system is a permanent setup used for my Sega Dreamcast (and a few other things). I seem to get full 33.6k rates, and it's quite reliable. I've disconnected the fan from the 1721 so it's silent (it really doesn't need it). I'm running a version of IOS that is total overkill (12.4 adventerprisek9) which needs the full 128MB RAM and takes the best part of 10 mins to boot, but you could get away with 12.3 ipbase.