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I'm intrigued by Vonage and other VoIP providers offering a second phone line and second phone number for very little money. The only reasons I would ever need a second phone line is for remote access to my broadband-connected PC when an alternate Internet connection is not available and to get online with someone else's computer while working on it at a remote location. I nearly always require net access when working on other people's PCs and I get tired of bringing my work, their property, home with me just because my Sprint phone couldn't get a signal (Which it NEVER can! :|).
So I would like to set up my home PC as a Dial-Up Networking server, with the phone line being a VoIP provided one (Using broadband cable). Is this possible? AFAIK, VoIP tries to strip the signal of all extraneous non-voice data and would therefore not be very usefull as a line for DUN. Is there a VoIP service that is more suited to DUN traffic? Am I wrong, and DUN over VoIP is actually a normal and common use of VoIP? ie, the reason for its existance perhaps?
Another question:
56k modems are limited to 53k in the US because the line voltages can not legally be raised to support that speed. Using VoIP, can full 56.6k be achieved? Also, as I understand it, all 56k modems can only do 33.6k when connected to another analog modem (Or did that go up to 44k w/ the move from v.90 to v.92?). When using digital VoIP, can I achieve 53k from incomming analog modem connections and 56k from other VoIP connections under optimal conditions?
I've never done any sort of DUN other than configuring a PC to connect to a dial-up ISP so I'm really drawing a blank on all of this. I don't even know where to start! Any help would be appreciated. I tried Googling for guides with keywords like "DUN VoIP ISP" and get nothing of interest.
So I would like to set up my home PC as a Dial-Up Networking server, with the phone line being a VoIP provided one (Using broadband cable). Is this possible? AFAIK, VoIP tries to strip the signal of all extraneous non-voice data and would therefore not be very usefull as a line for DUN. Is there a VoIP service that is more suited to DUN traffic? Am I wrong, and DUN over VoIP is actually a normal and common use of VoIP? ie, the reason for its existance perhaps?
Another question:
56k modems are limited to 53k in the US because the line voltages can not legally be raised to support that speed. Using VoIP, can full 56.6k be achieved? Also, as I understand it, all 56k modems can only do 33.6k when connected to another analog modem (Or did that go up to 44k w/ the move from v.90 to v.92?). When using digital VoIP, can I achieve 53k from incomming analog modem connections and 56k from other VoIP connections under optimal conditions?
I've never done any sort of DUN other than configuring a PC to connect to a dial-up ISP so I'm really drawing a blank on all of this. I don't even know where to start! Any help would be appreciated. I tried Googling for guides with keywords like "DUN VoIP ISP" and get nothing of interest.
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