Okay, the phone line portion of the dial-up project works! The phone jacks in my apartment don't seme to be connected together, but I was able to make it work. Since it's only going from the basement to the living room, I used a 50ft phone cord I purchased awhile back and ran it through the conduit I've placed. A test call from the cordless handset rings the test phone I had hooked up downstairs!

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@mrgm/116317513731024706

It works!!!
And the PCIe modem's here, too! If it wasn't stupid-late at night then I'd put the modem in a spare computer and try to get this dial-up stuff working! If it doesn't work then I guess it's time for a different modem? The telephone system side is working great. I also need to talk to my ISP at some point and see if putting this on my apartment's phone lines will mess with the "not active but maybe still plugged in" phone service at my ONT.

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I've got the Analog Telephone Adapter (ATA) but not the PCIe modem. Part of me wants to work on making one port ring the other, but another part for me knows that it's the middle of the night and testing my settings will involve making a test analog phone ring in the middle of the night. I like my neighbors too much to do that to them!

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