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To: T. J. Kim who wrote (1368)	12/11/1996 3:41:00 PM
From: Dee Jay	of 61433

how's this for a further complication? You can essentially lash together 2 modems to double your bandwidth usage via technology (MP) incorporated in Microsoft's Win95 upgrade & the new NT upgrades. You can do this utilizing 2 separate POTS lines which are a lot cheaper than installing and paying for an ISDN line with all of its complications and line/time charges, etc. Following are snips from commentaries on the Ascend User's Forum: "Once upon a time Kevin Smith shaped the electrons to say... >But 2 modems into a MAX ?? This is still unknown territory to me...." Response: "You'll probably be seeing more of this. Our users are asking for it too. Basically what they want is MP on analog lines. See, the Win95 and WinNT DUN upgrades now support MP using multiple modems (internal or eternal,doesn't matter) in the OS. Since POTS lines are cheap, much cheaper than ISDN for many, people are looking for ways to MP two 33.6 lines to get 67.2. And with compression a theoretical (yeah, right) max of 268.8 - though 134.4 isn't unrealistic. I can see this being a bigger issue with 56K, the ability to MP multiple 56K modems would be nice." further commentary from another person: "I agree. The RBOC are alas pricing BRI to be an exotic service. Users will be moving to multi-POTS. It's stupid and pointless; it ties up 2x the trunkage. But that seems to be what they want....." Dee Jay

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