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Someone has also just done 100 modems over a T3 line using Cisco gear: https://youtu.be/rOdGK6GVIVU
K…bps
Welcome to 1999.
And yet sometimes even with modern file sharing hosters I can only get 100KByte/s connections.
That’s still faster than this cluster.
If 12 modems simultaneously handshake and nobody is there to hear it, does it make a sound? You’re damn right it does and probably shattered glass too.
The hearing of 3 observers was lost during the handshake.
My first modem was an AT&T 300 baud acoustic coupler. My last was a USRobotics 56k for the BBS I ran till the early 2000s.
I later switched to DSL for my Internet, but the reason we never did this sort of thing was the ISDN was just easier to get bandwidth and the tech existed to do what you needed with a few of them.
12x POTS lines, or 6 full duplex ISDNs.
My 56k never actually achieved that, most of the time it was 33.6 or 28.8.
This is neat, and fun to see them still being tinkered with.
Was your USR a courier or sportster? In my experience the couriers had better success connecting and operating at 48000+bps
My last modems (cannot remember my 1st modem) were also US Robotics. I ran 2 or 3 BBS’s and FidoNet, on Apple ][ and PC back in the day. Also an online dating system. They were fun times.
I imagine it sounds amazing
Reeeee… BONG… Bong… ffffffftttttttttt… Bung…
Fffffffffftttttttt…
I remember doing this with NetZero accounts. You could trivially hack out the ads, and dial in-twice (if you had two phone lines), and do the bonding. Free slightly less shitty internets. Very useful for Napster and LimeWire back in the day.
More like masochists than enthusiasts.
They’re the same picture.
Kilobits or Kilobytes?
Little b is bit, big B is byte
Can I daisy chain multiple pc 98s together to make something that surpass modern windows.
Glad to see the USR Courier was used here. A venerable workhorse.
I can’t seem to get rid of my last one. Sentimental, I suppose.
Who knows what might still be functioning after the apocalypse.
I hate to be that guy, but… Is it time to get DSL?
now stack ‘em on that poptart borzoi
I bet you could get slightly quicker speeds if they ran a pihole or something to block ads.
This is kind of an interesting idea. I wonder if it’s feable to reuse all the old 56k modems?
Even 20 years ago you needed ad blocking to make sites load a bit faster on dial-up. Now you would need no script and an image blocker too.
Semi-barely-related thing that popped into my brain on imagining the sound of this;
… the UNATCO theme from Deus Ex played by an ‘orchestra’ of floppy drives.
On an even unrelateder note but tangentially semi-related to your comment, may I present:
[the user] symphony for dot matrix printers
(I actually have a t-shirt from this artist - saw them at mutek festival in Montreal in 2000something.
Exquisite.
I absolutely love everything and anything that can make music out of something that isn’t intended to make music.
