Re: [colorforth] /. and the new bios

["Arno J.J. Brevoort" <bre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > I was referring to the situation where we had to go back to dial-up.
> > Is there a way to connect DSL to DSL? (Assuming I could get DSL, which
>
> No, because it's designed to connect to the telephone company's central
> office.  However, I would also like to point out that there is no way to
> connect a modem to a modem either -- no modem I've ever seen has had the
> facilities to simulate a ring signal, or even a dial-tone.
True. Although typing ATO on one modem and ATA on the other will force the
modems to go online an negiotiate a connection on a direct link, making it
a possible longish (within the same city) distance bitpipe. I heard rumors
about an ISP in the Netherlands that would allow you to connect to their
dial-in servers by a leased raw copper pair. It would involve a simple
modem on both ends of the line. This makes economic sense in the
Netherlands since all phone calls, even local calls, are metered e.g. you
always pay by-the-minute charges -- so this would be an economical, if
slow, way to have your internet connection always online

> That being said, it IS possible to connect one user via DSL to another
> user via DSL, in precisely the same way someone with a dial-up modem
> would connect to another user.
Does this mean that if I own both ends of the cable, I could use two
off-the-shelf DSL modems to make a (private) highspeed bitpipe between two
locations?

Arno Brevoort


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