Subj : A little help...
To   : Sean Dennis
From : Mike Luther
Date : Sat Jul 22 2006 10:13 am

Sean ..

 SD> Hello, Peter.

 SD> 22 Jul 06 12:45, you wrote to me:

 PK> Are you using any OS/2 products for your VoIP environment, and if so
 PK> what?

 SD> I don't use anything for my VoIP, I just pick up my phone and use it. :)

 SD> Later,
 SD> Sean

Just thinking out loud here.  In contemplation for yet another fallback vector 
for disaster relief emergency setups using OS/2 and the old BBS system game.  
Have you ever tried using VOIP and 'standard' modem connections to the FidoNet 
stuff over VOIP?  I don't have VOIP here at the moment.  But I'd like to know 
what the answer to that question might be.  Could be an interesting fall-back 
down a long an lonely road at the other end of 'someplace' where the wolf has 
alrady eaten both Hansel and Gretal.

I've already got the OS/2 world up and proofed via the Hughes bird. I've just 
finished getting a standardized way of going into the WiFi world where we can 
plunk down WIN-XP and OS/2 lan connected boxes via the WiFi game back to the IP 
that way.  Heck of a lot easier than all this dual boot and shuffle process for 
a given OS/2 box against this or that wireless modem in my humble opinion.  Gee 
... a Linksys WET-54G is tiny to use to generate the LAN side of the deal.  And, 
yes, there are security hole possibility issues with the WRT-54GL Linux based 
Linksys router/wifi boxes.  But they are still available and apparently a whole 
host of work is being done on customizing them for ham radio higher power and 
specialized wifi network use.  That per last month's QSZT article and digging 
down through all the URL pig trail that starts with my browser.  So I got a 
pair of these and set things up!

And since the bottom channels of 1 through 6 are actually in the ham radio 
bands and can be used legally for increased power and gain antenna stuff, for 
disaster relief planning for a MAN that sure beats the heck out of packet in my 
humble opinion.  Yes .. encryption questions do still exist for the official 
ham radio use this way, but as I understand it that is being presented to the 
FCC in the USA here now by the ARRL.

Plus, as I read this .. ARRL has asked for public empathy purposes that the ham 
crew avoid the use of channel 1 and channel 6 in that they are so heavily found 
in default use in the part 15 game.

But as a last resort if nothing else game, I wonder if VOIP could be used to 
take the BBS game (Fido) to a place where curiously, only phone line support 
existed?  And thus pull the cost effectively to zero to create a long term time 
connection to someplace that needed it, yet by old phone line slower but 
effective use?

Thanks!


--> Sleep well; OS/2's still awake! ;)

Mike @ 1:117/3001

--> Sleep well; OS/2's still awake! ;)

Mike @ 1:117/3001

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