Anyone Use/Familiar With Using Dual Modems

[SCompRacer]

Have someone who lives way out in the sticks, and works at home. Suggested they look at Diamond Shotgun dual modem approach to increase DL rate but I could find no info on the S3-Diamond site about it.

Can anyone tell me what you need to do to use two modems, hardware and software wise?

[Brian R.]

For the Suprasonic II (two modems on one card), you need Windows 95 or 98, one free ISA slot, two free com ports, one free IRQ, two phone lines, and a CD-ROM drive.

This information was from the Diamond web site. In addition, your ISP has too support this protocol. Find an ISP first. They may be hard to locate. Try AOL or Microsoft.

[Kruzin]

I ran Dual USR 56k modems for a while.
I just got tired of the cost of an extra phone line, and the extra charge most ISPs hit you with for dual connections.
It did work nicely though. Improved d/l times significantly, but did not do a whole lot for gaming...

It's pretty simple to set up. Just put in 2 modems (or one dual modem), call your ISP to have them set up a multi-link account for you, and set up your dial-up properties to use multi-link.

[SCompRacer]

Thanks for the info. My Sister-In-Law has an at home accounting business and her four phone lines expense can get well into the 4 digit area. Trying to save her some money.

[JesTa784]

I worked for tech support once and one of my coworkers actually told a customer that if u put in multiple modems, u get more speed.. so if you put in 6 modems.. it's 6 times as fast...hahahhahaha.. oh man.. that one kept me laffing for a while

[Pace]

Does anybody know if Windows multilink supports multiple ISP accounts? i.e. connecting to two separate ISP accounts from 1 PC - and aggregating the downloads?

Paul.

[DentyCracker]

Pace I've tried it under 95, 98 and 2k, doesn't work.
Some ISPs have multilink enabled and don't know. If your ISP doesn't cut you off for multiple logins then you could just try the multi-link. Win2k's multilink is sweet. You can set it to multilink only when you need it and disconnect the extra line when not. Cool!

[Kruzin]

98's multi-link is the same way. You can connect and disconnect the second modem at will, without having to log off the first modem.

But AFAIK, you can't do this with separate ISP's. it has to be 2 links to the same one...

[DentyCracker]

What I meant was that in 2k unlike in 98 you can set the other modem to dial in (automatically)when the line is being used to say 75% capacity for 66% of the time and to release it when it falls below that threshold

[Pace]

Thanks guys, I'll try all the free ISP's in the UK in the hope they will work!

Anybody use multilink in the UK - which ISP?
I am planning to switch to a flat-rate provider so if it's one of these all the better!

Thanks again,

Paul