Dual Dial Up???

[Jarwa]

I currently have two modems installed in my machine. I also have two dial-up ISPs at the moment (I am trying a new one out), and I have two phone lines. I am able to dial up to both ISPs at the same time (using two different dial up connections in Win2k), but only the last one dialed will be active using Internet Explorer (this in Win2k). Is there a way to converge the two, so as to connect at around 100k?? Or, can I switch between the two connections at will? I am running Win2k mostly, but I am multi-booting Win98, Win2k, and WinXP.

 

[Jarwa]

To The Top! Let's try again.....

 

[FoBoT]

you need to use an ISP that supports channel bonding, not two seperate accounts on differenct ISP's

www.hawkcommunications.com does channel bonding

i have used a suprasonic II dual modem with hawk and channel bonding on W2k with success, i usually got ~100k

i can't find the place you tell it to do both, this pc only has a single modem
if you get stuck, i can install my old dual modem into a W2k pc and find the place you change the settings

good luck!

 

[JustinLerner]

It's called multilinking in Windows, but some people call it bonding or trunking (which are similar, but usually referred to in different applications.)

MS claims that your ISP must be multilink capable and have a multilink account with your ISP (usually costs more $$, like usually at least 2x current rate).

Some users claim to be able to setup multilinking with Shotgun and some other software with different ISP's. (I don't know if their claims are real or not, but in this case I think all they are doing is load balancing, not multilinking: two very different applications and results.)

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In Network and Dial-Up Connections, press the F1 key and search for MULTILINK.
Look for the following 2 items:
"Enabling multiple device dialing"
"Configuring multiple device dialing"