Build your own dial-up ISP in 2019
This article came at just the right time.
Maybe the HN crow can help me with this one.<p>I have a lot of old hardware that i want to connect to the to my network. Most of them have a 56k modem the rest a 14&#x2F;28k modem. What can i use to bring them all online at the same time. I tough to use some voip adapter (from pots to ethernet) but from what i understand there are not good for modem&#x2F;fax style signal, also i need something that can handle at least 8 client at the same time (the number of computer to connect is 22 at the time but i don&#x27;t know how realistic is to connect all of them at the same time using this method).<p>When i searched (i couple of month ago, so i might get wrong some terminology) i only found some enterprise pbx that were awfully expensive (1000$) i hope for something more cheap. I didn&#x27;t find anything that work.
EDIT: Also i&#x27;m not sure how to understand if the hardware that i plan to use can do what i need. What do i need to look in a pots to voip converter to work as modem &quot;server&quot;.
If i sound confused is because  i am.<p>I have a plan B, that consist of using serial port and emulate old style Hayes modem by a central more powerful (and modern) computer using a lot of usb2serial adapter, but i would rather avoid that since some computer have only 1 serial port and is already used for other hardware forcing me to choose between connectivity and the other device. Also some of the hardware it&#x27;s not compatible with serial modem.
I&#x27;ve already test this approach and (expect the aforementioned shortcoming) it works quite well.<p>Thank you all in advance