Okay, i happen to live in one of the only houses in my
university without a network connection.
There is however a phone in the house connected to the
university's internal telephone network.
In order to phone another house i would normally just have
to dial for example 5031. How can I use this to connect to
another computer connected to the other phone?

Any help would be appreciated? The use would be primarily
for simple games and chat.

Thanks

Mark

One computer must place the call and other setup to answer
the phone. Hyperterminal can even be used with some manual
intervention.

However that is a basic two wire connection where the ASCII
sent out is only displayed on that other machine. Apparently
you want full internet abilities. For that, a server is
required or special software that permits two 'gamers' to
communicate.

PCPlus did simple two wire communication. Many other
programs would do same. Could even instruct modem to perform
auto answer functions - so that human need not bother. But
this is 10 and 20 year old technology.

Mark wrote:
> Okay, i happen to live in one of the only houses in my
> university without a network connection.
> There is however a phone in the house connected to the
> university's internal telephone network.
> In order to phone another house i would normally just have
> to dial for example 5031. How can I use this to connect to
> another computer connected to the other phone?
>
> Any help would be appreciated? The use would be primarily
> for simple games and chat.

So will i be able to get 56k speeds out of the connection?
Talking about 10-20 year old technology is a little
disconcerting.

Can anyone recommend any software to allow the two
computers to connect?

Mark
>-----Original Message-----
> One computer must place the call and other setup to
answer
>the phone. Hyperterminal can even be used with some
manual
>intervention.
>
> However that is a basic two wire connection where the
ASCII
>sent out is only displayed on that other machine.
Apparently
>you want full internet abilities. For that, a server is
>required or special software that permits two 'gamers' to
>communicate.
>
> PCPlus did simple two wire communication. Many other
>programs would do same. Could even instruct modem to
perform
>auto answer functions - so that human need not bother.
But
>this is 10 and 20 year old technology.