Re: Put your BBS back online with MagicJack?

[Steven Lichter <diespammers@ikillspammers.com>]

Don wrote:
> "Steven Lichter" <diespammers@ikillspammers.com> wrote in message 
> news:QLiUl.34311$ZP4.5146@nlpi067.nbdc.sbc.com...
> > Terry Olsen wrote:
> > > Has anyone ever thought of running their old BBS just like they did in 
> > > the heyday???  With actual Apple hardware, an analog modem, and a phone 
> > > line? Now that MagicJack has come into existence, $40 to purchase, and 
> > > $20 per year of service with free long distance, seems to me it would be 
> > > entirely possible to have a bunch of Apple II bbs's to call once again.
> > >
> > > Sysops would not have to shell out a monthly payment for a 2nd phone line 
> > > and users wouldn't have to worry about long distance phone charges to 
> > > call. No-brainer, eh?
> > >
> > > So would there be any interest?  Are there any sysops who would consider 
> > > running a BBS like this?  In the next month or so, I'll probably go buy a 
> > > MagicJack, put mine online, and see what happens.  Anyone else?
> >
> > You would need to run the Magic Jack with a PC or Intel Mac, I would guess 
> > from there you could plug a modem into the phone jack then to your Apple. 
> > I have a Magic Jack, but I have never tried a modem on it. There might be 
> > problems since the system requires compression.  I know years ago when 
> > Sprint has PC Pursuit it required special drivers to allow the Apple BBS 
> > software t o run on it.
> >
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>
> If you're going to end up using a PC in any case, there are a number of 
> freeware TELNET-to-RS232 programs around that will let users TELNET to your 
> BBS using your existing internet connection. This assumes, of course, that 
> you've got some sort of "always-on" connection.
>
> I tired a couple of them several years back, but ended up going a different 
> route using software specific to the system I was/am running (TBBS system on 
> PC-DOS).  The only other issue you might have is your ISP blocking inbound 
> port 23 connections, but the software that I tried allowed you to select 
> other ports so you can work around that one.
>
> I've just looked through my HD and I can't find any links to the stuff I 
> tried, but some enterprising Google-ing may come up with something.  I seem 
> to recall that the guy who had written it was using it to run a BBS on a 
> C64, but it worked fine with other modem-based BBS's.

>

If  you are using DSL, then each time you boot your system tou will have 
a defferent IP address.  The  port problem as  you said can be worked 
around.

I still have my old data line since it only costs a couple of dollars as 
a bundled second line, so that would be no problem.  My problems is no 
time as well as  the last time it was up I had no calls for weeks at a time.

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