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  • Serial Port: YouTube over Dialup

    From Warpslide@21:3/110 to All on Sat Sep 27 18:05:22 2025
    Hi All,

    The Serial Port decided to see if it was possible to stream a YouTube video over a dialup connection. Of course a single 56k connection wouldn't suffice, so they tried out Multilink Point-to-Point Protocol (MLPPP).

    Check our their journey here:
    https://youtu.be/LZ259Jx8MQY


    Jay

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  • From paulie420@21:2/150 to Warpslide on Sat Sep 27 17:48:21 2025
    The Serial Port decided to see if it was possible to stream a YouTube video over a dialup connection. Of course a single 56k connection wouldn't suffice, so they tried out Multilink Point-to-Point Protocol (MLPPP).

    Check our their journey here:
    https://youtu.be/LZ259Jx8MQY

    Loved this video - I'd never heard of binding modems together, before... kinda wish I'd of thought of that in 1997!



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  • From phigan@21:3/193 to paulie420 on Tue Sep 30 10:42:30 2025
    Loved this video - I'd never heard of binding modems together, before... kinda wish I'd of thought of that in 1997!

    It was definitely a thing, and people did it with ISDN and other types of lines, too... but the ISP had to be set up to support it.



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  • From Bob Worm@21:1/205 to Warpslide on Thu Oct 16 20:59:58 2025
    Re: Serial Port: YouTube over Dialup
    By: Warpslide to All on Sat Sep 27 2025 18:05:22

    Hi, Warpslide.

    The Serial Port decided to see if it was possible to stream a YouTube video over a dialup connection.

    I really enjoy Serial Port's stuff. As a networking nerd a lot of it is quite close to my heart. I watched the Cabletron video just today - I remember Cabletron FDDI switches from the first proper networks job I had.

    "Remember" may be over-stating it a bit, the only thing I really remember is that they could show an ASCII-art diagram of the FDDI dual ring to help you identify if it was healthy, looped (i.e. the ring was incomplete and being 'repaired' by one of the switches) or crossed (i.e. the inner ring and outer ring were joined due to a cabling error).

    I assumed his stuff was quite niche but actually the channel has 10s of thousands of followers. Maybe other people like his server stuff?

    BobW
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  • From Bob Worm@21:1/205 to phigan on Thu Oct 16 21:07:58 2025
    Re: Re: Serial Port: YouTube over Dialup
    By: phigan to paulie420 on Tue Sep 30 2025 10:42:30

    Hi, Phigan.

    It was definitely a thing, and people did it with ISDN and other types of lines, too... but the ISP had to be set up to support it.

    Yeah, link bonding works well if you know all of your connections land on the same device at the head end, less so if you are dialing a virtual number and hitting random devices all over the place.

    I'm pretty sure you can work around that using L2TP - though multilink falls apart a bit if you have significantly different delay on the member links.

    BobW
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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Bob Worm on Fri Oct 17 07:50:14 2025
    Bob Worm wrote to phigan <=-

    It was definitely a thing, and people did it with ISDN and other types of lines, too... but the ISP had to be set up to support it.

    Yeah, link bonding works well if you know all of your connections land
    on the same device at the head end, less so if you are dialing a
    virtual number and hitting random devices all over the place.

    The ISDN era was fun, it was like having 2 smart phone lines. I had one
    going into the BBS, the other end connected to a Shiva LANRover at
    work. I could take calls on the first B channel, have them hunt to the
    second channel to take two callers, or nail both channels up to the LAN
    Rover to get 112kb/sec of internet goodness. I'd also discovered FTN
    via FTP, and could poll several times a day instead of dialing up to my
    local hub once a day.

    The "two callers" thing was purely academic - at that point I was
    getting one call a day. :(


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