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Dual Modems
Hmm,
Just an idea, I am still running just a dial-up modem to my ISP, only 56k. I was wondering if it was possible to add another modem to my computer. {On the other com port} Then sign up for another account at my ISP, and get twice speed that I would normally get. I have never heard about this idea before, but I have never heard that it cannot be done. So what do you think? Is it possible? How would I set it up?
{I am only doing this becuase currently I am unable to get cable or satelite right now, I will still have to wait about another year.}
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Hmm...I don't think so. Maybe if you had two different phone lines you could just use one account and dial up into it, and have incoming transfer on both of them, but in my experience I've not seen an OS that had an option even similar to this.
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It is possible, it's called shotgun dialup. I used it before broadband was available in my area. Take a look here
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=shotgun+dialup
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Its also called dual modems or multilinking. Anyways have a look at this page as well...
http://help.cadvision.com/accounts/h...odems_mppp.asp
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Wow, proved me wrong. Awesome, I'm gonna check that stuff out as well.
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its sounds great but it still gonna cost a lot of money.dailing up with two lines.
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Originally posted here by cdre
its sounds great but it still gonna cost a lot of money.dailing up with two lines.
Not really....just the price of local call multiplied by two...
It's a brilliant idea. I think I read an article on it at PCworld....
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Most isp give you a free shell account to try them out
if you ask nice enough
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I work for an Isp, so i know how this works on the ISP side. The hardware, and shotgunning the modems is not supported by our techs so I dont know about that.But in order to acheive 124k you need to have an ISDN line. And thats like 80 bux a month from SWB. Of course you have to sign up for a dual channel ISDN account which is another 20 bux. This is how it works at www.ev1.net .
As for other ISP's, I dunno. But logic tells me you couldnt get 112k off of a regular phone line.
I dont know the symantics of the whole phone line speed regulation.....guess i should check out google again today for the 50th time
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I am looking up on it some more, and it appears to be definitely possible, but a few of you got the wrong idea, especially Dr Toker, what I am doing is just doubling everything coming into my pc. I am going to buy another modem, use a second phone line I already have in my house, and then get another account at my ISP service. Hopefully I will not have to pay twice as much becuase I am just one member. {I would be hoping for some sort of a discount.} But, my ISP is closed on the weekends, I am going to call them on monday morning to find out more about it.
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It depends the ISP you have some offer dual modem support others don't.
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How do you purpose to use both of the connections? Now I understand your theory, and it sounds good. However, having two open connections to the internet on the same pc leaves me asking, how would they share. You would probley have two Ip's. I dunno how this would work.
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you wouldn't be sharing the bandwidth between the two connections, that wouldn't be possible due to IP's and source and destination info. I think what he is shooting for is more of just having two connections open so he can do twice as much as he could with just one. He's not necessarily gonna have the full bandwidth (i.e....112k). He would be accomplishing the same thing if he put one computer right next to another on two different lines. Only his one machine would be processing both connections and requests. Am I right about what you're shooting for?
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You just set up multilink PPP and if the ISP has the capability (most Access servers have the capability, they just choose not to use because it lowers the total number of people who can dial in) then you are good to go.
It's quite simple to set up.
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Originally posted here by Dr Toker
How do you purpose to use both of the connections? Now I understand your theory, and it sounds good. However, having two open connections to the internet on the same pc leaves me asking, how would they share. You would probley have two Ip's. I dunno how this would work.
The access server on the ISP side bonds the two together. One IP address, two connections. Simple. Look up multilink PPP.
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So at this point I am understanding that you will have 2 SEPERATE connections from two seperate lines. At that point the access server somehow knows that these connections are the same , because of the multilink settings. At that point, is bandwith achieved? 112k?
*Dr Toker is so confused.
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Well, first the top bandwidth you can achieve is 53k, no matter what your modem says. When you use multilink ppp and you attempt a connection it will 'inform' the access server that you are running multilink ppp.
And then you do have double the bandwidth- it also epends on what kind of policies the ISP has. They may opt to lower the total bandwidth depending on their requirements.
For a little Cisco info go here. http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/131/3.html
For some 3com info go here. http://infodeli.3com.com/infodeli/to...lppp/mlppp.htm
I'll look for ascend/assured access/etc. and post them a little later. Hope this helps
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Thank you everyone,
I am purchasing another modem tonight, and will most likely have everything configured by tomorrow, thank you everyone for your help.
