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Watch out for shotgun technology. It's designed to split requests over 2 lines,
so the fastest single request you get is 56K, which means that from a website,
you can have 2 images on a webpage downloading at 56K each thus net
effectively doubling your speed, but with a streaming technology like quotes,
there is only one request and one data stream, therefore, it would only come
on one line - 56K.
But, IF your ISP can do Multilink-PPP with analog lines (and that's a big IF as
I had to find someone local to do it), you can get bond multiple analog lines. I
bonded 3 to get a net effective speed of about 140K. You are only limited by
the number of modems you have and phone lines, and your ISP's willingness
to work with you. If you call them and they don't know what you're talking
about with ANALOG Multilink-PPP, they most likely can't do it. My total cost
was three residential phone lines @ $16 each + the initial internet account at
$20/mo + 2 additional ones at $10/mo. each, all totalled is $78/mo for 140K.
This is a far cry from the $ 150 + minute charges that ISDN would have cost.
But now I have cable and everyone's begging me to get DSL. Civilization has
made it to my home. (Guess it's time to move, huh?<g>).
Cash
On 15 Feb 2001, at 14:27, NHBob wrote:
> Nice summary of choices.
> RE: ISDN
> I was previously running ISDN, and found a variation that minimizes costs if
> it works for you. the measured service part of the monthly charge is for
> DATA. Not for analog, so if you use a 56K standard modem into the DSL modem
> port, there's no data charge because its analog coming out of your
> conventional 56K modem. Further, there are dual-56K-modems on a single card
> that can bind together to get about 120K effective analog (optimum) rate,
> likewise with no measured service (data) charge. US Robotics called it
> "shotgun", but don't know what its called now under 3com. Your ISP may or
> may not provide for binding 2 simultaneous accesses, but if they have an
> ISDN-level service, they might. At any rate, FWIW, its a legal way around
> the 300 hour limitation that I used with success until DSL was available.
> NHBob
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