router that doubles dialup bandwidth?

Good afternoon everyone,

I just got off the phone with a client who wants to double his bandwidth for some apps that he runs. He is currently using a dialup connection and broadband is unavailable in his area. He mentioned something about a router that you can plug two phone lines into and it will double your bandwidth. I have never seen anything like this, but I don't do much work with routers to begin with. If anybody knows if this is possible, I would appreciate your help. On that note, suggestions about good equipment would be a great help too. Thanks again for your time, and have a great day.

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multilinking modems.

ISP must support it. you need two phone lines and sometimes 2 different ISP accounts (though not always)

heres a brief rundown
http://www.smartcomputing.com/editor...%2F35l09%2Easp

ISDN????

Yep its called modem teaming... the isp has to support two accounts and the router should act as two modems. It is much the same as is for isdn - one channel isdn is 64 - but using two lines you go to 128.

Check with the isp before buying anything!

Take a look at ISDL also. It's available out to around 30,000 feet (double that of ADSL) and runs around $100/month. My 144/144 line was pretty damn reliable. The only time it ever went down was when the local telco was working on our dslam.

If ISDN or IDSL is not available you can do multilinked modems.

3com makes one version here:Multilink Modem
That device will let you connect 4 machines via ethernet to it and will dial on 2 modems at one time.

You can also use the multilink feature in 2000/me/xp where you just take 2 modems and the OS links them together. Nice cause it's free but who knows how reliable it is. Do NOT use winmodems! You need 2 decent hardware based modems. Just set the dial up up and it's under the advanced properties and you can select extra modems. I can't say this for fact but I would suspect better success if you used similar modems.

Now the tricky part.

Your ISP must support multilink connections. If they do the calls from the modems must both land on the same bank of modems in order to make a connection. If not, only 1 will connect. In this case keep dialing until both connect and multilink. If the ISP supports ISDN dial up for 2 channels, multilink for regular modems will probably work. Some ISP's will provide a special phone number (often toll) for this sort of thing.

Your costs will be $$ for each of the 2 phone lines you need and the ISP cost. Probably about $80 a month for a 40-90k analog connection. Given the cost and the amazing reliability of dial up, the cost for flat rate ISDN or IDSL looks better and better.;)

http://www.multitech.com/PRODUCTS/RouteFinder/

The RouteFinder family provides high-speed, shared connectivity to the Internet. The dial-up RouteFinder offers shared V.90/56K or ISDN Internet access when connected to external modems. The broadband models offer shared Internet access while utilizing DSL or cable connections. And, the wireless model provides connectivity to the Internet without installing or moving wires.


Family Features
Shared Internet access for up to 253 LAN users with one IP address
Dial-on-demand for Internet services
Built-in firewall and DHCP services with Network Address Translation (NAT)
Protects your LAN against Denial of Service (DoS) attacks
Internet access control tools for client and site filtering to prevent unauthorized Internet use
Works with H.323 Voice over IP products including MultiVOIP gateways or Microsoft NetMeeting
Supports outbound IPSec and PPTP pass through
Network monitor utility
IP address mapping/port forwarding
Remote configuration and management using any telnet client
Provides e-mail addresses for up to 10 users with one e-mail account
Two-year warranty
Dial-up Router Features
Up to 112K bps bandwidth with two V.90/56K modems or 256K bps with two ISDN modems utilizing ML-PPP
Two RS-232 WAN ports connect to analog or ISDN modems
Built-in 4-port 10/100 switch
The following products may have country-specific versions for regions not listed. Specify country when ordering.

I thought this was called Channel Bonding (also known as MultiLink)...

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