Creating a Dial Up Connection Using Teltone TLS-5

I recently came across a video that used a Teltone TLS-5 telephone simulator that was used as a dial up connection. I found a used one and decided to give it a shot.

Hardware used:

1. Teltone TLS-5
2. USROBOTICS USB modem
3. IBM Thinkpad T42 running Windows 98
4. Regular telephone for testing

Steps involved.

1. Connect Teltone TLS-5 to power outlet and switch to On position
2. Install the USB modem to a Windows XP host (I currently have a 6 node Proxmox cluster with a Windows XP virtual machine that has the USB modem attached) to port 2
3. Install USB modem drivers on host
4. Connect the laptop to port 3
5. Install modem drivers on to laptop host if the host is missing them
6. On the Windows XP host create a new advanced internet connection and select the modem and user as the dial in user.
7. On the laptop or host you want to dial in from, create a new dial up connection and use the username/password from step 6 and use number 102 as the phone number
8. Click Connect and you should be connected.

Gotchas
In the tutorial I was using Netscape Navigator. The homepage was home.netscape.com. This is no longer a thing. An upcoming tutorial will use pihole as a DNS lookup so that going to old URLs still work.

Video demonstration of someone else ring testing: