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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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