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| Thread ID: 81577 | 2007-08-01 01:27:00 | Is it possible?? | manvsmachine (11826) | Press F1 |
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| 574784 | 2007-08-01 01:27:00 | Is it possible to have a broadband account and a dial-up account running in one home? Not running all at once.pressf1.pcworld.co.nz :confused: |
manvsmachine (11826) | ||
| 574785 | 2007-08-01 01:36:00 | Yes. And yes, they will both work at the same time. Just watch out for extra fees if both the BB and the dialup are with the same ISP under the same plan. Note that your dialup modem will need to run through a line filter. |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 574786 | 2007-08-01 01:36:00 | Well .........if you PAY for the two, I guess it's possible, but I also think you'd have to have two dedicated computers.....as the interrupts are gonna clash. I had a fax machine and DSL at the same time...that may not qualify..but the fax/voice modem was not turned on while I had the NIC loaded and running. Funny thing is...Dial-Up is more expensive than DSL right now in the US... |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 574787 | 2007-08-01 01:37:00 | Yip - defititley, at the same time too, assuming everything is filtered properly. Why would you want to do this though? Why not set up a network and run off the broadband? | wratterus (105) | ||
| 574788 | 2007-08-01 02:02:00 | Well . . . . . . . . . if you PAY for the two, I guess it's possible, but I also think you'd have to have two dedicated computers . . . . . as the interrupts are gonna clash . I had a fax machine and DSL at the same time . . . that may not qualify . . but the fax/voice modem was not turned on while I had the NIC loaded and running . The interrupts will not clash - it's perfectly possible to have loads of networking devices (modems, NICs etc) in the same machine (and in use) without conflicts . Only thing you will have to watch is the routing - if they're on the same machine, at the same time, and both connected to the internet (as opposed to the dialup being a private connection) you may want to implement some custom rules to direct traffic through the appropriate interface . |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 574789 | 2007-08-01 02:04:00 | because my brother is getting broadband soon and he wont let me use it because ill end up exceeding the bandwidth limit. So i was just thinking if i could stick with dial-up on my computer. | manvsmachine (11826) | ||
| 574790 | 2007-08-01 02:08:00 | With separate accounts on separate machines there will be no problem. The ADSL doesn't know, or care, what happens on the "phone" circuit; the phone (modem) doesn't know, or care, what happens on the ADSL circuit. (That's assuming there's correct filtering between the ADSL and phone circuits. ;) ). | Graham L (2) | ||
| 574791 | 2007-08-01 02:11:00 | Well only you know how likely that will be :) The other option if he's with an ISP that sells usage in blocks is to put the money you'd spend on a dialup account towards a higher cap for you to share. |
PaulD (232) | ||
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