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Internet Modem?

TwiggyTwiggy
edited August 2017 in Software
My family has switched to VOIP so I can no longer use my internal modem.

However, I have found a solution for this:

A program called internet modem, which lets you connect an old computer through a null-modem serial cable to a newer computer and use the newer computers internet connection as a "modem".

I have this program, and the hardware needed.

However, when I do atdt www.thekeep.bbs, I get "modem error code = 4" on the console of the program on my newer computer.

Does anyone know what error code 4 would mean?

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  • calvinbcalvinb
    This seems janky. If you're attaching via serial, you can just use SLIP and get full networking stack function.
  • TwiggyTwiggy
    how would I go about using SLIP?
  • whistler2250whistler2250
    Twiggy wrote:
    My family has switched to VOIP so I can no longer use my internal modem.

    However, I have found a solution for this:

    A program called internet modem, which lets you connect an old computer through a null-modem serial cable to a newer computer and use the newer computers internet connection as a "modem".

    I have this program, and the hardware needed.

    However, when I do atdt http://www.thekeep.bbs, I get "modem error code = 4" on the console of the program on my newer computer.

    Does anyone know what error code 4 would mean?
    Install an ethernet card into your pc. Modems are old and slow.
  • calvinbcalvinb
    Set up a SLIP server on the other machine. You can use Linux (or another Unixoid) or an old version of Windows that has the stack. I recommend setting up a VM for this and passing through the serial port.

    A guide for NT 4: https://virtuallyfun.superglobalmegacor ... with-slip/

    There's the other options of PPP over null modem, and of course, actual Ethernet. Seriously, use Ethernet so you can keep your sanity. I set up SLIP for my Butterfly and abandoned it as soon as I got Ethernet and a WaveLAN.
  • TwiggyTwiggy
    whistler2250 wrote:
    Twiggy wrote:
    My family has switched to VOIP so I can no longer use my internal modem.

    However, I have found a solution for this:

    A program called internet modem, which lets you connect an old computer through a null-modem serial cable to a newer computer and use the newer computers internet connection as a "modem".

    I have this program, and the hardware needed.

    However, when I do atdt http://www.thekeep.bbs, I get "modem error code = 4" on the console of the program on my newer computer.

    Does anyone know what error code 4 would mean?
    Install an ethernet card into your pc. Modems are old and slow.

    im not going to do that on a machine made far before the Internet was a public thing. I'm mainly just trying to dial bbses like I did when we still had a POTS line.
  • stitchstitch
    whistler2250 wrote:
    Install an ethernet card into your pc. Modems are old and slow.

    Can you take your unhelpful crappy posts elsewhere? Thank you.
  • rakslicerakslice
    Twiggy, I think I found your post on another site about this... I can't find a manual or error code list online for the "BoycoT Internet Modem" software. However right off the bat, you need to use telnet gateway software with a telnet server; The Keep's telnet server is at thekeep.net, not www.thekeep.bbs.
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