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Connecting to an analog dial-in PSTN terminal without a PSTN line

there's a computer ("server") that has no Internet connection, and it is located in a place with no GSM signal. The only way to get connection to it is an analog modem (US Robotics 56Kbit/s). This modem is connected to a national PSTN line with a…
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Dial-up server: Setting up a virtual POTS infrastructure

I have dial-up server and client software that I want to be able to test and script. Unfortunately, I don't own a landline. Much less, multiple lines that I can use to test concurrent connections. What I do have, is a handful of modems and a…
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Old dial up modem noise explanation

I am looking for a technical documentation on the connection procedure used on the old Dial Up modem that generate this sound: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHW1ho8L7V8 I can't find anything on Google about this, do you know where can I find…
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What's the best solution for datacenter modem dialling?

We have some physical servers that we cannot virtualise because they are connected to analog modems for alert paging. We need to retain this functionality, but virtualise the servers and reduce the pile of individual modems down to something that…
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Windows 8.1 Dial-up

I have two Win8.1 computers, and I need to reliably connect from one to the other via dial-up because the remote computer can't be accessed any other way. The client computer can make outgoing calls, however I find that the one that acts as a server…
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Citrix XenApp: what's 56K performance like?

Have a client that's running Citrix Metaframe with remote locations that are by and large limited to 56K dial-up connections. Citrix Program Neighborhood always ran pretty decently over 56K; any chance XenApp can be configured to work in a…
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Probability of failure with larger number of network elements

I'm having a discussion with a work colleague. I'm saying that a network with 100 elements will have pretty much 10 times as many failures as a network with 10 elements, ie a tech will need to replace faulty hardware 10 times more often. He suggests…
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Configuring Dialout with the Cisco 2500 router

I'm working on configuring dialout with a Cisco 2511 router and external modems. The end point is a dial-in server, which will create a ppp connection. I use this guide as a reference but it only work with async1 port, when I switch to async2 and…
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How to add a serial COM port to Windows server 2008 using Linux + KVM + Qemu?

We are using Linux + KVM + Qemu with libvirt on our servers to manage virtual WIndows 2008 Servers. The Host is Ubuntu 11.04. The point is on one of our Windows server 2008 guest, we need to connect a dial-up modem. After connecting the modem to the…
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Keeping a persistent 3G connection on Windows

I'm in charge of managing an array of Windows Embedded 7 Standard based PCs (they act just like plain old Windows 7). The computers have 3G cards as their only means of communication, and are on buses. Right now, the 3G cards are configured in NDIS…
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possible to set remote IP Address (with IPCP) via Windows Dial Up?

is it somehow possible to set the IP Address of the remote device, using IPCP, when using a Windows Server for a Dial Up Connection via ISDN? e.g. via Linux it is simple calling pppd with option local_IP_address:remote_IP_address But how can this be…
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Minicom Successive Address Dialing

I've been tasked with writing a script for the minicom connection utility that tests a series of numbers in its dialing directory, I have found the baked in scripting language to be near useless. I've been trying to use the shell launch syntax to…
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Windows 7 + Dialup Network Connection ("Wizard cannot create the connection")

We have a banking application[1] that requires a Dialup Connection object to establish it's connection. We've recently upgraded to Windows 7 and are unable to create the connection; the error message is "The wizard cannot create the connection" with…
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Increase dialup connection speeds

I'm currently manage a p2p dialup network like this: client computer==(ethernet)router Cisco 2500==(async port)modems----pstn----modem==dial-in server All things run well except the connection rates between the client and server is only 9600.…
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Windows 2012 VPN setup without Active Directory

I have followed the guide here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qbpxKRb-94 But my situation differs with respect to there being no AD (Active Directory) setup. When I try to connect I get this in the server event log: "The user xx connected from…
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