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Dial-up revisited: Why it's needed and how to run an oldschool ISP

H.1302 (Depage) | Day 2 | 16:15 - 16:40 | Speakers: Özcan Oğuz

Dial-up revisited: Why it's needed and how to run an oldschool ISP
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Abstract

Dial-up was the main way to connect to the Internet back in the 90s. Unfortunately, within the time almost all of the dial-up service providers are shut down, because of obvious reasons. It used to connect our living room to the world via 56 kbps (or less) bandwidth rate, in comparison, modern broadband global mean is two thousand times faster. But sometimes we still need it to connect our legacy hardware to the world, retro (or lowres) computing purposes, sometimes even to circumvent censorship.

In this talk, after a brief on the dial-up connection and it's nature, notes and methods on running a personal dial-up ISP and connecting to it will be covered; starting from hardware requirements for both ISP and client side and the software stack for GNU/Linux operating system to run a dial-up system, using only free/libre software.

Speakers

Özcan Oğuz

Özcan Oğuz was born on a rainy June evening in Istanbul in one of the final years of the twentieth century, and before that century came to a close, he encountered computers thanks to an i486 DX2 machine his father brought home from a flea market. He started using free software and GNU/Linux at a young age, and continues to use and advocate it today. He worked on a wide range of jobs and projects from publishing to bioinformatics, from creative advertising to industrial IoT. He currently provides services to various companies as a software and solutions developer. He is the founding member and president of the Free Software Association in Turkey and founding member of Hackerspace Istanbul.

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