Using cable modem to connect to a dial-up one. Possible?

Factual Questions
1

This is a long shot, but I’ve seen stranger things with networking.

We use Vonage so using a 14.4 dial-up modem is out, but it would help to connect to dial-ups so I can do some work from home after hours.

Is there a way to use my cable connection at home to connect to a dial-up system in a store?

Thanks

2

Not unless the cable modem has the hardware to talk to a modem on the other end, so I doubt it.

3

Would the work from home be worth shelling out the $25 a month for a basic phone line? That seems like the only solution to me.

4

It seems that’s the only option I have. It’s not needed really, it would just offer more available cases if I could dial in to a store. It would be worth the money, just wondered if I could avoid the hassel of dealing with Qwest again.

Thanks for the info

5

I wouldn’t think this would be any more difficult than using modem on a digital PBX. I assume you can plug in a standard analog, RJ11 connector phone into your vonage router. give it a shot. I doubt if you’ll get full bandwith but it’s worth a try. It’s up to Vonage to route the call to the public switch on the other end.

6

:smack:

And of course I miss the obvious people to ask this of.

Vonage.

sigh It’s been a long week. :slight_smile:

7

I’d say that if Vonage allows you to use a standard POTS phone (you’re old fashioned kind), then plug the analog computer modem in and go.

If it requires some fancy digital phone, then… no.

8

I don’t know how ‘realistic’ Vonage phone service is, but assuming you have no way of dialing out through a ‘real’ phone system, connecting directly is out.

Back when I started university, I set my Linux box to dial up to my ISP, then publish a web-page on my account with the IP address is was assigned. If this store has a dial-up account to do this with, you could connect with VNC or some other type of remote desktop software.

9

Fax machines can work with the Vonage service, so it seems that you could get a dial-up to work. Their online help suggests that you limit the baud rate on the fax to 9600, so you should try that setting on your dial-up line. If you don’t need much bandwidth, or have plenty of time, it ought to work.