Running a BBS off of your MagicJack

kacklehorn · Post by **kacklehorn** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 1:05 pm

Remember the old BBS days (for anyone that old)? I'm wondering if the quality of the MagicJack service is good enough to run one of the old-time BBS systems off of.

If anyone is able to do this, do tell.

I'm going to try to get it working on a crappy machine thats modem is connected to an ATA using the MJ SIP creds.

I'll give out the phone number if I get it working.

diamond45 · Post by **diamond45** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 1:53 am

I tried calling BBSes off of a MJ a while back. The best I could do was 1200 baud (remember those days??)

Though I heard if you turn off error correction it may work better. Not sure - haven't tried it myself. Just haven't dug out the instruction manual to find the proper AT command for my modem!

So to answer your question - it isn't really a feasible solution.

BTW - if you want to run your BBS on the Internet, you can do so quite easily. Check out The BBS Corner and the Telnet BBS Guide for details.

http://www.thebbscorner.com

http://www.telnetbbsguide.com

Or you can PM me on here.