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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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