Re: Connecting to the Internet


"Sam Hobbs" <samuel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Mark Yudkin" <myudkinATcompuserveDOTcom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> The Dialup features of the InternetAPI were created in the days of
>> locally attached modems and expensive low speed connections. Technology
>> advances have made these mostly obsolete.
>
> Are "locally attached modems" different from modems connected to a PC
> using a serial connection at one end and a plain old telephone at the
> other end?

COM: to phone line (probably no X.25 or ISDN, no ADSL).

> Or are the modems the same as the ones being sold still in most stores
> selling computer peripherals?

That's probably country specific. I have no idea what's being sold in your
country's stores. Over here you're probably going to be sold ISDN, ADSL or
broadband cable rather than POTS modems.

>
> When you say "expensive low speed connections" do you mean the type that
> Earthlink offered for $20 in 1995 and at a speed that is essentially the
> same as today?

I was thinking of the old modems that topped out at the 28.8Kbps (i.e.
pre-X2) at prices that predated deregulation. I believe that in USA local
calls were free and at least long distance providers were not state
monopolies, that was not the case in the rest of the world until rather more
recently.

[I was doing this stuff back in the early '80s, including developing
embedded telephony software for the telecommunications industry's central
devices. Thnigs have come a long way since then, and we tend to forget how
primitive and expensive telecommunications was only 20 years ago].
>
> I am not aware of any other connection type that influenced dial-up
> networking significantly more.
>
> The main reason I ask is because mayayana seems to think that you are
> describing a different type of connection. If I am wrong about the
> confusion then you can ignore this post.

I think mayayana has understood.

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