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From: "Matthew Camilleri" <bunkertoshimatty@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Wide area experimental UUCP network
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2025 18:41:03 +0200
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I had the idea to do so but never got there. We have Phreaknet that works
over Asterisk servers and those VoIP adapters which "emulates" the old
telephone network. We could use that as our base! The Asterisk server even
has a virtual modem if im remembering right, atleast with the Phreaknet
configs.
"04dco" <0@04d.co> wrote in message
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> Has anyone ever done a recreation of an old wide area UUCP network over
> dial-up (VoIP or otherwise)? In my experience a VoIP call using the
> G.711a codec at 64 Kbps uncompressed can establish a 28.8 Kbps PPP link
> (V.34) of questionable reliability, mostly because of jitter and latency
> being caused by the connection between the endpoints. This was attempted
> with a winmodem on one end and a hard modem on the other but pure
> software solutions do exist, see https://github.com/AonCyberLabs/D-Modem
>
> In addition to a classic SIP call, there exists an ITU-T standard for
> Modem over IP (V.150.1) tough I don't know any free software
> implementations of it. As an idea of how it might work, there is
> commercial software available: https://vocal.com/voip/v-150-1-gateway/
>
> In essence, something like https://wiki.dn42.us/Home but UUCP instead of
> TCP/IP+BGP.