I think I would have a difficult time getting one here without paying
business rates (if I can get one at all)... and I strongly suspect that it >DW> would ultimately still be routed through the provider's VOIP system, even >DW> if the lines leaving my house were copper.

I added a dialup line to my BBS a couple years ago, and I'm using VOIP service
from voip.ms, and what they charge isn't business rates, as far as I can tell.
I feel like their price is fairly reasonable.

Because it is VOIP... I think they'd charge you a whole lot more for a real honest-to-goodness copper line that probably winds up having calls routed through VOIP somewhere in their office.

Are users able to get decent connection rates and not get dropped often?

I have some callers who seem to struggle but I don't know what equipment
they are using on their end. Saturday, OTOH, I had a new caller that
connected at 9600 and didn't seem to have any issues during the 15-20
minutes they were connected.


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Re: Dialup BBSing with VOIP
By: Dumas Walker to NIGHTFOX on Mon Mar 23 2026 08:46 am

I added a dialup line to my BBS a couple years ago, and I'm using VOIP
service
from voip.ms, and what they charge isn't business rates, as far as I can

Are users able to get decent connection rates and not get dropped often?

Honestly I haven't looked at the connection rates that closely, but I recall from when I noticed the connection rates aren't that bad (at least around 14.4k or so), and I don't think they get dropped often.

Nightfox
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Dumas Walker wrote to NIGHTFOX <=-

I have some callers who seem to struggle but I don't know what
equipment they are using on their end. Saturday, OTOH, I had a new
caller that connected at 9600 and didn't seem to have any issues during the 15-20 minutes they were connected.

If you can select your codec, you may have a better time of it. I always
used G.722 at work, but there's a codec called Opus now that's supposed
to be more flexible.



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Are users able to get decent connection rates and not get dropped often?

Honestly I haven't looked at the connection rates that closely, but I recall from when I noticed the connection rates aren't that bad (at least around 14.4
or so), and I don't think they get dropped often.

My brief testing seemed to show that 14.4k was about the upper limit.
Because I cannot lock the port at 14.4, and because locking it at 19.2
causes the modem to allow connections > 14.4, I have it limited to 9600 now.

I am wondering if I might do better trying a different service than the
local ISPs and getting my own ATA device might help a bit.


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Dumas Walker wrote to NIGHTFOX <=-

I have some callers who seem to struggle but I don't know what
equipment they are using on their end. Saturday, OTOH, I had a new caller that connected at 9600 and didn't seem to have any issues during the 15-20 minutes they were connected.

If you can select your codec, you may have a better time of it. I always
used G.722 at work, but there's a codec called Opus now that's supposed
to be more flexible.

I cannot with the current setup (no user interface) but if I do upgrade in future... get my own ATA box... I will have some idea what to look for.

Thanks!


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