Multilink

[Leo J Mauler]

On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 10:01:14 -0600 Jonathan Hutchins
<hutchins at tarcanfel.org> writes:
> On Tuesday 09 December 2003 07:37 am, Greg Kedrovsky wrote:
> 
> > 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.  

ISDN?  

And some people say *I'm* a masochist... :)

No, I was talking about dual dial-up connections through the POTS, using
dual modems in your computer (software solution) or a dedicated
dual-modem hardware router solution.

> 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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