Linking two modems together?

[BSEagle1]

If I was to run a phone line from one plug in my modem to a plug in another modem, with both modems in my pc, and then plug one of them into a normal phone line so I could get a net connection, would this give me a faster connection, or abunch of hardware problems?
I miss my cable 🙁

 

[amdskip]

It won't do anything for you🙁

 

[JackMDS]

The ?Copper? that comes into your house on one Tel. line can support max, of 53Kb/sec.

However if you have two Tel. Line and a special ISP that is networked to support such a service, it can be done.

 

[idea]

I remember people used to do this, I believe they called it "bonding." No idea how it was done tho, I could never afford an extra 9600baud, let alone another monthly phone line bill

 

[Oaf357]

Like JackMDS said you'd have to have two phone lines and an ISP that supports "shotgunning".

This isn't typical due to the cost of a second phone line and ISP fees. The cost is usually the same or marginally less than a faster DSL connection.

 

[ericlp]

Originally posted by: Oaf357
Like JackMDS said you'd have to have two phone lines and an ISP that supports "shotgunning".

This isn't typical due to the cost of a second phone line and ISP fees. The cost is usually the same or marginally less than a faster DSL connection.

Yup, ShotGun... And not only did you need an ISP that supported Multilink PPP Protocaland 2 phone lines. *GASP* you needed to buy the special hardware I believe Supra Modems were really heavy into this.

If you acutally get this to work. Do a Lan speed connection and report back! Would be interesting! 🙂 Old technology! WhooHooo

112K per second... (If your lucky) That's when you go on ebay and bid for the old technology before FCC rules took into effect of taking the modem to 52K or whatever it was...

 

[JOSEPHLB]

Diamond Multimedia introduced this concept as "Shotgun" technology..

Its built into later operating systems as "Modem Bonding".. meaning just that.. allowing you to link a second modem to your current dial up connection..

if I remember correctly.. from my dial up days.. once you have your dial-up connection setup.. you then look at the properties of the dial-up icon.. right click on it.. and somewhere is the option to bind another modem to it.. then you can set that up to dial another line..etc...

quite a few ISP's support Dual 56k access... for some.. the price is reasonable .. but for some.. its only a tad cheaper than DSL

 

[ericlp]

Originally posted by: JOSEPHLB
Diamond Multimedia introduced this concept as "Shotgun" technology..

Its built into later operating systems as "Modem Bonding".. meaning just that.. allowing you to link a second modem to your current dial up connection..

if I remember correctly.. from my dial up days.. once you have your dial-up connection setup.. you then look at the properties of the dial-up icon.. right click on it.. and somewhere is the option to bind another modem to it.. then you can set that up to dial another line..etc...

quite a few ISP's support Dual 56k access... for some.. the price is reasonable .. but for some.. its only a tad cheaper than DSL

Isn't Diamond Multimedia and Supra the same company?

 

[JOSEPHLB]

Supra was the actual model name of some of Diamond MM's modems..

 

[lobadobadingdong]

wow, I haven't done that in over 4 years, about a year before broadband was available in Waco, we had an account for $150 a month for the ability to have 10 e-mail addressess and up to 5 people logged in at the same time. our server used a linked modem approach from the NT 4.0 SB server software, we had a blazing 120kbps connection up and down at the office. made my poor 28.8 modem yearn for a upgrade to the *new* 56k modems.

ahh, nostalgia.