So many things wrong with this:
- That’s a fax machine handshake not a data modem.
- That’s a LOT of data to be hissing over dial-up in a highly compressed GSM voice channel. That kind of interface would be pushing it even on 10 Mbps broadband.
- The background noise would have had that handshake repeating over and over
Credit to @riskable@programming.dev for their comment in another thread that inspired the post title.


Bleep, bleep, bloop