Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: Vance Shipley Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Modem Leapfrog to Avoid Toll Charges Message-ID: <5268@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 16 Mar 90 21:10:36 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: vances@xenitec.UUCP (Vance Shipley) Organization: SwitchView - Linton Technology Lines: 26 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 179, Message 9 of 12 In article <4984@accuvax.nwu.edu> MHS108@psuvm.psu.edu (Mark Solsman) writes: >Is it illegal to have two modems tied up to each other so that a person could >call the one modem and bounce to another (3d) modem to avoid toll charges? >I'd have a relay station that would bounce the output of one modem to the >input of another, all signals. The advantages would be avoiding toll >charges since it would be local to the relay station, and local from >the relay station to the destination. I set one of these up once. Trying to dial into our office switch and out again over an FX line didn't work because of degradation of the signal, so I hooked two modems back to back and created a "digipeater"! In order to prevent unauthorized use I hotlined the output of the second modem so it would automatically connect me with the site I was interested in. I also disabled the escape sequences on both. The null modem cable connecting the two must be done correctly so you don't get hung up. vance@xenitec.on.ca