Internet through DTV

[Leo J Mauler]

On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 07:37:05 -0600 Greg Kedrovsky
<greg at iglesia-del-este.com> writes:
> On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 12:59:35AM -0600, Leo J Mauler wrote:
> >
> > See if your local ISP allows dual modem connections to
> > boost speed.  It would at least be a better backup solution
> > to your wireless connection than plain old dial-up, and two
> > ISP accounts should cost about the same as regular cable
> > or satellite broadband here in the U.S.A. (approx $20-40
> > a month).
>
> Does anyone have a link where I could get more information
> on this? Dual modems and two connections?

This ISP offers the service:
http://www.1usa.com/dialups/multilinkservice.html

Another ISP offering the service:
http://www.gtw.net/services/access/112k_home.html

This is a TinyURL link to a page which has a list of Costa Rica Internet
Service Providers
http://tinyurl.com/yg8j

(the old link is
http://www.emich.edu/ict_usa/COSTA_RICA.htm#Internet%20Service%20Provider
s)

BTW, TinyURL is a great free service which allows you to shorten any URL
to a tinyurl.com URL which won't break in an E-mail.

This is another list of Costa Rica ISPs:
http://fiat.gslis.utexas.edu/~gpasch/proveen.html

> What... one for upload and one for download?

No, they're both bi-directional.  Traditionally upload and download
speeds are different on the same dial-up connection, and a dual-modem
setup just combines the upload speeds on each and the download speeds on
each.

> Is it something locally configured, or out on my ISP servers?

Both, really.  You do some configuring at home, unless you get a hardware
solution,
such as the Hawking PN8228/IR8228 2-port Analog Modem Router
http://www.1usa.com/dialups/multilinkservice.html#dualmodembox.  Hawking
is a good networking company (I use their $9.99 10/100 PCI NICs
exclusively on my wired home network) and they have excellent Linux
support.  Other companies make dual-modem hardware solutions like this
one.

> Thanks, Leo. You're loading me up with lots of good ideas.

Its a solution which works with existing POTS.  You get up to 112Kbaud,
or up to twice as fast as dial-up.
Chances are most people with dial-up have two phone lines by now, one for
voice and one for data.  Using this kind of solution means you can double
your speeds when you aren't planning on using your voice line (or get a
third line for constant highspeed dial-up).