Analog Modem Channel Bonding

1998-12-23 Thread Kevin Traas
Is there anyone here who is using and/or has experience with bonding analog
modem channels for increased bandwidth?  I have someone who's out in the
sticks with no (inexpensive) options beyond analog.

I understand EQL is one option; however, is not well supported (for
connecting to ISPs, etc.)

It looks like the prevalent standard is MPP; which is used to bond ISDN
channels.  Is there any way to use MPP on analog modems?

I'm also interested in implementing bandwidth-on-demand using 1-4 modems.

Are there any manufacturers out there providing more than one modem per
ISA/PCI card?  i.e. multi-port modems?

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Regards,
Kevin Traas


Re: Analog Modem Channel Bonding

1998-12-23 Thread Damon Buckwalter
Kevin Traas wrote:
 
 Is there anyone here who is using and/or has experience with bonding analog
 modem channels for increased bandwidth?  I have someone who's out in the
 sticks with no (inexpensive) options beyond analog.
 
 I understand EQL is one option; however, is not well supported (for
 connecting to ISPs, etc.)
 
 It looks like the prevalent standard is MPP; which is used to bond ISDN
 channels.  Is there any way to use MPP on analog modems?

There is an [old] patch to the kernel and to pppd to support
Multilink-PPP
at http://mp.ins-coin.de/

 I'm also interested in implementing bandwidth-on-demand using 1-4 modems.
 
 Are there any manufacturers out there providing more than one modem per
 ISA/PCI card?  i.e. multi-port modems?

The stuff at http://www.diamondmm.com/shotgun/ looks promising, and from
what I've read, 'Shotgun' is just two modems on one card using MPP.

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