dialup.worldJul 19, 2023

#introductions We cobbled together a free-to-use dialup ISP out of trash and spare parts. dialup.world is composed of four modems for simultaneous connections delivering speeds up to 33.6K.

This is currently a bunch of USR Sportsters hooked into Linux, but we are currently working on setups with Cisco gear, as well as some musings in 56K, other weird dialup appliances, and retro networking.

Check our website http://dialup.world for more information about the setup and how to access! In addition to the PSTN, you can also connect through PhreakNet (https://portal.phreaknet.org), a sort of telephone hobbyist/phreaker/collector darknet.

We also supply dialup access to the WebTV Redialed project (http://webtv.zone) which means if you dig your WebTV out of storage and hook it into a phone line, it *just works* with the original toll-free number and no modification needed on your part!

I invite you to watch our bad ideas become reality.

#modems #dialup #retronetworking #webtv

Show threadSpike 
@dialupworld Will you be documenting the software and hardware you used to do this? I've wanted to do this for a long time but had no idea where to start.
Jul 19, 2023 at 8:20pmWeb
Show threaddialup.worldJul 19, 2023

@spike Mostly already done! The broad strokes and all the hardware information can be found right on our website, http://dialup.world/ while the software nitty gritty is in our GitHub, https://github.com/Dialup-World/linux-config
There are a few little things I haven't documented yet but nothing major.

I'll admit though that A LOT of this is borrowed from an existing guide by Doge Microsystems, https://dogemicrosystems.ca/wiki/Dial-up_pool which is excellent!

Anything I do going forward will definitely be documented as well!

Show threadSpike Jul 19, 2023
@dialupworld This is an excellent starting point. Thank you! Let the dialup ISP hobbyists commence!