bonding 2 56k's on one phone line

[Spek]

is it possible on just one computer? can you trick internet connection sharing into doing it? just curious.

 

[pulse8]

I believe you need a modem that'll do it and you'll need 2 ISP accounts and 2 lines in order for it to work. Don't remember exactly.

 

[jfall]

I don't think the phone lines could handle that speed actually... highest is around 52,000bps. But what you are talking about is usually referred to as `shotgun`.. you need multiple logins from your isp, two modems and two seperate phone lines to do it.. waste of money IMO.

 

[XZeroII]

some J+B Weld will do. Just glue them things together and prepare for some high speed surfin'!

Seriously, you need 2 modems, and 2 phone lines. There is an option in the dialer properties to enable the second modem. Some ISP's (most) don't support it so you'll need 2 accounts most likely.

 

[Gulzakar]

diamond used to have a modem that would do that...you need two lines though...not a niggie, you really only need one account.

 

[NeoV]

Diamond's modem did this, it had inputs for two lines on one modem.

I had this for a while, it worked pretty well, there was certainly a noticable difference between one and two lines working....the second line would stay active if you got a phone call too, which was nice...

Your ISP has to support you having a second account...and hopefully not charge you for a full second account.

If you don't have access to any broadband, I'd say its not a bad option.

 

[nihil]

<< is it possible on just one computer? can you trick internet connection sharing into doing it? just curious. >>



this can be done with win2k. but you would need 2 modems, 2 different lines, and most importantly you would need for your isp to support this on their side.

 

[Spek]

i already know of that technique. but i dont want to get a second phone line. i want to push as much out of a single phone line as i can. i just heard it from a friend of mine that you can somehow trick internet connection sharing into thinking two computers are sharing a single line, when its actually just one computer with two modems. there probably wont be a speed increase doing it that way but im desparate to get a fast connection the cheapest way possible. i dont have access to either cable or dsl, so im one desparate mofo lol.

 

[JustinLerner]

You can only increase your bandwidth by do linking/bonding with two phone lines, two modems, and a special ISP account if not using two accounts with something like DiamonMM Shotgun modems. (This is all done from one [1] PC with two internal modems or one Shotgun modem, not two PC's).

ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) is a different sofware solution allowing one PC to establish a connection to the internet (the connection could be multilinking two modems or a single dial-up modem, or instead it could use DSL/cable modems, or ISDN/IDSL, or T1/FrameRelay, fiber to the home . . . or any method of establishing communications to the internet from your PC that will use ICS). This one PC can then share this one internet connection with all other network clients needing internet access. This means more than one PC shares the one connection, dividing the internet access speed that any PC achieves when on the internet.

A single phone line (POTS - plain old telephone system) can support a single modem, but voltage signaling usually limits POTS modems to communicate at 53.333Kb/s or about 6.66KB/s maximum (It's extremely rare to get this speed on a dial-up).
If your ISP and CO (your phone company) could change signaling levels and compression standard equipment, they you could get a newer modem to match their capabilities to achieve greater speeds than 56K. Since the voltage levels are determined by regulatory agencies, the only other cabilities are to change compression standards, which is exactly what the v.44 standard does (found on some newer modems) usually also having the newer v.92 standard (compared to v.90). If your ISP doesn't have v.92/v.44 capability on their RAS servers, your newer modem will not be able to use the better compression techniques to achieve faster downloads.

 

[jfall]

Spek, what you are trying to do is impossible

 

[JackMDS]

I actually heard that there is a town in the North, controlled by the Yeti. In this town you can configure 4 Hybrid ISA-PCI modems, to get 20KB/sec. download.

The Yeti

 

[MisterMe]

Isn't it also necessary for the ISP to support Shotgun Modems. I mean if you dial into the same ISP on two different lines, how is that the FTP server you want to download a file from knows that you want to split the transmission into halves, sending each half through a different route/account/line? Wait for broadband or git yourself a dish or somethin'