I believe that part was doing a sound quality test to ensure the data rate could be reached. If the line quality was bad it would connect at a slower rate since it was based on frequency.
It’s a specific 56K protocol. There were a few different types of 56K modems and they did the last part of the handshake differently. One did the “boing boing” and another common one had more of an ascending tone at the end of the handshake.
I’m old but I don’t know what the “bwong bwong bwong” is. Anyone?
I believe that part was doing a sound quality test to ensure the data rate could be reached. If the line quality was bad it would connect at a slower rate since it was based on frequency.
Yup, and whether the modem on the other side was able to reach the same data rate as well.
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It’s a specific 56K protocol. There were a few different types of 56K modems and they did the last part of the handshake differently. One did the “boing boing” and another common one had more of an ascending tone at the end of the handshake.
You can hear the boing boing one at the end (1m54s) of that example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xalTFH5ht-k
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Are you old enough to have had dialup?
I am and I’m drawing a blank. I remember kchshchshchchchchch eeeeeedle eeedllllllllle, then some croaking and various phone sounds, no bwongs though.
I’m am and same here. Maybe I’m so old I’ve forgotten?
I don’t hear it in these examples, for instance.
https://youtu.be/ckc6XSSh52w
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V.34 is the one burned into my memory. I hear plenty of BIPs but nothing I would consider a BWONG