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lostngone

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Aug 11, 2003
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I am looking for a way to dial out on an analog phone line(POTS) using an iPad/iOS device.

I am talking old school ATDT dial, VT220, 9600 to 28.8 max. I am NOT trying to access the internet or do PPP/SLIP. I have some old legacy proprietary systems that are only accessible via dial-in analog modems.

To make things even more complicated it would be nice if it was via cellular modem. Back in the days of AMPS/CDMA you could tether certain models of cell phone to a computer via a cable and do exactly this.

I can do this now with iOS terminal software, a cisco router with wifi and a modem on the router AUX port. Using reverse telnet I can loop the modem on the AUX port however this is an expensive and complicated solution for access to an analog phone line.

Companies like Serialio and Get-Console make wifi/bluetooth to serial devices but then I have to plug a cell modem into that.

Any ideas?
 
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