Let me get this straight...

[sina94]

Some ISPs offer multilinking accounts... but as I understand it you could also just have two seperate dialup accounts running on seperate modems and phonelines. Is that right, or am I way off?

 

[Nikkon]

Yes and pay twice as much for both the ISP service and the additional phone line. If you going to do that get DSL and a router.

 

[sina94]

Yes, I'm aware of that...

But what I was wondering is how the speed would compare to DSL on two v.92 modems with "accelerated" dialup and modem hacks/modem boosting software.

And I'm not interested in flames, just facts...

 

[Nikkon]

Oh your talking about the two modem on the one computer. That wont work. You will get 56k from both of the ISP's but they would not combine. Example: You wouldnt be able to download a file any faster or get better pings on video games. But you could download two different files at once both using the full 56k instead of sharing one 56k connection.

 

[TheMajor]

I don't know if your ISP offers ISDN, but with ISDN you can use two phonelines on one computer....it's very expensive and you only get 128Kbps

 

[sina94]

That's why I was asking... thought I might have finally found a way to stick it to the DSL giants... guess not.

DSL isn't that bad for around $20/month... but then the phone company steps in and charges an arm and a leg for setup and to keep the service going.

I'll try to find the ISP that said otherwise... then I'll see if I can figure out what the deal was, or post the link so you can tell me what they were talking about.

 

[sina94]

Scam or misunderstanding? Here's the link, maybe you can make some sense out of it...

http://www.gbronline.com/home/multilink/default.asp

 

[office politics]

you already have two phone lines and two modems in your house? they give you a few free days. Get it and run a speed test.