Running two cable internet connections as one?

[robinwilson16]

I am just getting a faster cable internet connection and I was wondering before I cancel the other one is there any way to run them both together as one faster connection

Thanks

[felixml]

Unfortunately NO!

Cannot be done for cable or DSL.

[robinwilson16]

Ok thanks
I knew there was a way for 56k
I will just cancel the old one then

[Rocky]

Quote:

Originally posted by robinwilson16@Jan 29 2003, 08:46 PM
I knew there was a way for 56k

How do you do that?

[Zone-MR]

For dialup and ISDN it is possible to bundle two lines into one. There are two conditions for this. Firstly your ISP must support this, and secondly both must be dialing the same ISP. The PPP protocol supports line bundling. Basically your PC tells your ISP to treat the two connections as one, and to give you one IP. In windows if you have several modems installed, I belive its just a matter of ticking the boxes next to the ones you want to use.

For cable/DSL its impossible. All the connection/protocol stuff is handled by your modem/router. If you have two connections you end up with two seperate IP addresses. It is not possible to have twice the connection speed as any internet server will only return data to the IP that requested it.

In theory, with the right software it would be possible to use the RESUME feature most FTP/HTTP servers have to simultaneously download half of a file on one connection, and half over the other. I havent seen any ready-made software that does this tho. Not to mention windows is a bitch when it comes to handling two interfaces with two gateways.

[Rocky]

But do you need 2 phone lines? I've got 2, one for phone, one internet...

[nnuxx]

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Originally posted by Zone-MR@Jan 30 2003, 12:48 AM
For cable/DSL its impossible. All the connection/protocol stuff is handled by your modem/router. If you have two connections you end up with two seperate IP addresses.

that's correct Zone-MR , another situation was to have two cable modems in "bridge mode" (only one ISP account -> two modems, that is )

in portugal there's 1 cable modem (an old one by now... -ELSA - not sure what exact model, but those were the only ELSA cable modem that the ISP (NETCABO.pt) used to provide, and the only ones that could act as a router too, (you could use private IP's in the LAN interface <_< ), currently they provide Motorola's after they have worked with 3Com... ).
i've never tried it tho ... never got my hands on two of the right modems at the same time to try it out , but i was told that it works, in bridge mode u can get two cable modems with one IP, "pushing" yr ISP link at the same time

in theory you could use one to down, and the other one to up, "sort of speak", i'm not sure how to translate this, but one of the modems would do the "call-back"?? function...
cheers

[robinwilson16]

Yes, thanks for the replies
I will use one to upload and one to download until I cancel the other one