#othernetworks — Public Fediverse posts
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Aaaaaand now we have a baby little ADSL DSLAM in the CO homelab :3
ET&Y is now offering very competitive rates for home internet services (limit 12 customers only, actual speeds may vary). :bec_grin:
Really really need to pick up a telecom rack to stuff all this year into; the table is getting cramped and we don't even have the DSX patchbay, HDSL mechanics shelf, or -48V plant supply in there yet.
#HomeLab #VoiceLab #RetroLab #OtherNetworks #Telecommunications
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Wonder if there would be any interest in [FPV] streaming some retro CO phone lab tinkering.
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In continued phone-nerdery: Welcome to the Tandem Straylight.
Let's get some old CO gear talking to each other :pixelheart: ☎️
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It has been a good, silly, evening, filled with 66 blocks, phones, T1 circuits, and glittering hardware.
Need to order (find?) some plug-in surge modules for this building terminal.
Safe to say things are getting deeply nerdy, here.
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Jack in and join IRC. For the Aesthetic. For the Chooms. For the 'Net we were promised. :bec_grin:
#RetroNetworking #RetroComputing #IRC #OtherNetworks #Windows98 #Windows98se #Windows9x
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CW: lots of nerd talk about dreamcast and phone lines with dubious delivery
In the service of totally overdoing some #Dreamcast #RetroGaming, I've successfully patched the #DreamPi gateway to be less useful. Buckle up, because this is a kinda long post with little in the way of delivery. :bec_smug:
Normally the DreamPi throws its modem into voice mode, plays a dial tone to fake out the dreamcast, listens to the digits dialed, and then switches to data mode and kicks off a handshake. Stays off-hook the entire time.
This makes sense if you're using an electrically-simple Line Voltage Inducer and a straight connection between the Dreamcast and the modem for minimum part count get-up-and-go. It's actually a really clever workaround.
My tweak adjusts the modem behavior such that it stays on-hook until it detects an incoming ring, then answers and jumps straight into data mode.
This change was made because presently we're using a Valcom DLE-200B phone line simulator which does provide 'local' tone, ringing voltage, and ringdown.
This necessarily means that we lose out on capturing the dialed digits, but it turns out we don't need those at all for pretty much any of the PPP-based games with central servers, and I'm not interested in playing anything outside of that scope.
So now we have a dreampi that can only work in PPP mode and it requires a line simulator to work correctly. Why?
All, ultimately, so that we can hook the DreamPi and two dreamcasts up to a TDM-based #PBX instead of the line simulator, wherein either of the latter can dial the former, thinking they're dialing Dreamcast Online Services. It goes through the whole ring-in process, which terminates at DreamPi, handshakes, and tunnels to Dreamcast Live -- getting us the goods.
And there's lots of Friday left to go :3
#RetroGaming #OtherNetworks #PhoneLab #RetroLab #POTS #Modem
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Hnngh, talk about an anticlimax. Been hunting down this IP Office chassis to install in the telecoms lab and it *seems* to have a dead internal PSU.
It's gonna get repaired, of course, but it just totally killed all immediate forward progress.
#VoiceLab #OtherNetworks #HomeLab #RetroLab #Avaya #PhoneSystems #PBX #IPOffice
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How extra does it have to be before we're officially Extra with the CO TDM project?
The H4TU-C cards are due to be delivered today (theoretically)...
...but now I'm noodling on picking up a building entrance terminal and set up a 110 block handoff.
...... reaaaally this is an excuse to add those pluggable surge suppressors to the mix. I saw them in an RT cabinet "tour" years ago and really want to add them here. For completeness. Yeah.
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Good news! My H4TU-C card has been delivered!
... bad news: it was delivered to the wrong address, about 5 states away.
Making up for it short term with updating the firmware on our TA908, which is only about 6 major versions out of date, and then we're gonna see about linking it somewhere.
Then, maybe, set up the 908 to be a SIP-TDM gateway and tie the IP Office to it? Egress through @eventphone 's EPVPN until I get my act together?
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@ety I really like the #PhoneLab one! But I think it would be good to maybe also use #HomeLab or #OtherNetworks as well, so people get used to the #PhoneLab at first :3
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I know I asked this a while back, but I'm stubbornly going to keep at it.
There are more than a few entities on fedi that are into standing up old phone networks, ranging from military field comms, business PBXes, even homelab ESS implementations.
But I can't find a dedicated hashtag for the life of me, so I'm going to pick one and run with it.
#OtherNetworks is a great catch-all for the more esoteric, #RetroLab is broad but you get the idea, and #HomeLab is *really* broad.
#Boost maybe? ❤️
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On the other hand, single- and dual- card enclosures for the modern high-density stuff don't exist. Not like they're not available on the market -- they were never made. That would be sorta silly for a high-density product.
There could be a market* for that.
And by market* I mean a very small number of #retrolab #othernetworks #phone nerds who might like to 3D print this shit or something.
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A question for the #streamer folk: If you're planning on streaming some content that's out of line with your typical content, do you set up a second 'channel?'
Interested in perspectives for and against splitting topics across channels.
Context: Usually I stream video games at @stream, but am looking at streaming some #HomeLab and #OtherNetworks type content, and maybe some #AmateurRadio #POTA activations.
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#FediStreamer #Owncast #Twitch #FreeStreaming #FreeStreamers
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A day that starts with a #clabretro upload and promises of D&D later in the day? Not a bad day at all.
Clab continues to scratch my #Retro #Sun itch with today's upload: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKPVI-qFjLU
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A day that starts with a #clabretro upload and promises of D&D later in the day? Not a bad day at all.
Clab continues to scratch my #Retro #Sun itch with today's upload: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKPVI-qFjLU
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A day that starts with a #clabretro upload and promises of D&D later in the day? Not a bad day at all.
Clab continues to scratch my #Retro #Sun itch with today's upload: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKPVI-qFjLU
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A day that starts with a #clabretro upload and promises of D&D later in the day? Not a bad day at all.
Clab continues to scratch my #Retro #Sun itch with today's upload: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKPVI-qFjLU
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A day that starts with a #clabretro upload and promises of D&D later in the day? Not a bad day at all.
Clab continues to scratch my #Retro #Sun itch with today's upload: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKPVI-qFjLU
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@loriemerson I read the Other Networks: Radio Transmitter book! I had some parts lying around, and will order whatever I'm missing in order to complete the circuit. I wanted to ask, though:
What would the effects of using a 22 gauge copper wire for the coil (instead of 24) be? I think the diameter difference is 0.644 mm (22 AWG) vs 0.511 mm (24 AWG).
Would that render the transmitter circuit useless, or maybe just change the frequency range I could play with?
I'm attaching a photo- the lower components are exact matches (100/103 capacitors et al), the right-hand side is an old coil I bought for some other RF-radio-ish circuit, the top contains similar parts, and my 22 AWG wire.