Overview
This manual describes the configuration of two computers, one
acting as server and other as client. The server computer (see
) will be
configured to provide internet services and the client
computer (see )
to make use of those internet services. The connection medium
used by both client and server computer is the telelphone line
(i.e., the same medium you use to realize telephone calls).
In this configuration, both client and server computers use
special devices named Modems
to transmit data
in form of sound across the telephone line (see ).
This infrastructure is made available to you free of charge,
however, you should know that maintaining it might cost you
both money and time. For example, for each hour the server
computer is on production there is an electrical consume that
need to be paid every month. Likewise, each call that you
establish from the client computer to the server computer will
cost you money, based on the location you made the call from
and the time you spend connected.
To use this infrastructure, people connecting from the client
computers to the server computer must agree the conditions
described in .
It is worth to mention that, you can configure one computer to
act both as server and client. In this case, your computer
acts as client of another server computer, not the one you
have configured in the same computer of your client (i.e., you
cannot call yourself and expect to answer any incoming call
using the same line you used to make the outgoing call, it
doesn't make any sense). Likewise, your server will act as
server for another client computer, not the one you have
configured. In resume, you can both receive incoming calls or
realize outgoing calls using the same telephone line, but only
when the telephone line is free from any incoming or outgoing
call.
This infrastructure could result very useful to you when you
want to share IP packages with your friends and the only
communication medium you and your friends have access to is a
telephone network.