Multilink

[Paul Taylor]

As long as both end points of the PPP connection support Multiplink PPP
you can use "bandwidth bonding".

Most major ISPs support the service (because the carrier modem banks they
lease from support it).

I did a little testing with this. Testing with a 14.4kbps wireless phone
and 56k dial-up connection , two 14.4kbps, and two PCS Vision phones
(bursting was 290+kbps!) using Multilink PPP.

> On Tuesday 09 December 2003 07:37 am, Greg Kedrovsky wrote:
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>> Does anyone have a link where I could get more information on this? Dual
>> modems and two connections?
>
> With an IDSN line, you have two discrete data channels.  In order to get
> the
> full bandwidth, you have to have a way to bond them together as a single
> pipeline.  For some reason this was seldom done in the modem, so software
> on
> the PC was responsible.  I think Microsoft calls it "multilink", others
> call
> it "channel bonding".  It's included with any software that supports ISDN
> connections.
>
> The fun thing is, it doesn't care what kind of channel you're bonding.
> I've
> seen it work with two ISDN channels and two dial-up modems going through
> two
> different ISP's, all carrying data for the same FTP transfer.
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