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Thread ID: 43452 2004-03-15 06:29:00 Is it possible to share more than 1 56k connection over a network? Stormwarden (388) Press F1
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222674 2004-03-15 06:29:00 ie if you had three computers networked, and they all had seperate modems, phone lines and dial-up accounts, could you pool the three conections to have an effective 168k connection?

The reason why I am asking is because here at uni we all have our own phone lines and dial-up aco****s, if we were to network the machines and pool the resources, it should provide some fairly grunty access speed compared to a single 56k connection...

Any help on this topic would be much appreciated
Stormwarden (388)
222675 2004-03-15 06:49:00 The real challenge would be finding any ISP that could or would combine the 3 into one.

Otherwise you have what you have, 3 x 56k connections. All independent.
godfather (25)
222676 2004-03-15 06:50:00 Yes it is.

You can find some info on it here (www.pipeline.com.au) and here (support.microsoft.com).
b1naryb0y (3)
222677 2004-03-15 06:56:00 > Yes it is.
>
> You can find some info on it
> here (www.pipeline.com.au
> edModem/MultilinkModem.htm) and
> here (support.microsoft.com
> en-us;307849&sd=tech).

But as godfather said, it does require your ISP to support multilinking.

Mike.
Mike (15)
222678 2004-03-15 08:18:00 So thats what the Mutlilink option is when you right click a dial-up connection, interesting, very.


Doesnt the one computer have to have all 3 modems for that??
MrBeef (342)
222679 2004-03-15 18:29:00 Why not pool ya money and get a jetstream connection, (the FAST one), then use a proxy program or ics to share the connection... ?..... drcspy (146)
222680 2004-03-15 19:28:00 I am pretty sure on my searchs of trademe i came across hubs(switches) for offices and it had 2 56k modems in them as well..Makin up for the 112k.. MrBeef (342)
222681 2004-03-16 01:27:00 But it will work only if the ISP will provide the capability. To the best of my knowledge, no ISP in NZ does this. They want you to buy "broadband". That is technically better. It is worth their while. It's not worth their while to make an inferior mode available for a few people, and then spend a lot of time giving support when the people can't make it go. :D Graham L (2)
222682 2004-03-16 03:03:00 Well i just hit up google for ... NZ ISP Multilink and it comes up with
www.caverock.net.nz

... if you search the page (ctrl + f) for multilink you will find that they do...but however that page is copyrighted 1999
MrBeef (342)
222683 2004-03-16 04:28:00 Well done. Ask Caverock how many customers are using it. :D And if they remember how to enable it. I'd guess "none", and "no". Graham L (2)
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