I just hooked up the dual modem setup, while waiting for the phone company to stop didiling and deploy adsl.
VERY EASY.
1. First modem was a diamond supra 56, [50 Bucks] at ASAP Computers, San Francisco. The second modem is any old v90 56k. [laying around, free, now that we dial out through the network] I just happened to have the Daimond, it may be that any two 56K v90's work.
2. Plug them in, clic on dial up networking in Windows 98. Click on modem, click on Multilink built into WINDOWS98. (extend and embrace this!)
3. ISP Netwiz.net has multilink ($10 bucks a month, extra) as do a number of other ISPs.
4. Plug one phone line into one, and the other into the second. Set them both to dial same number at ISP. Pop the first modem, it starts the second modem for you. Very Cool.
5. Download Netsonic, the software web graphic accelerator for free. Uplink and downlink are the same speed. You get about 100K (lot of overhead)but it seems phsycologicly like 300K--Very fast.
6. Download Sygate, (free trials) so that Second line drops off for phone, but still connected at 56K.
7. Total install, $50. plus $10/month.
I think this kind of capability is going to make the internet [and Intel Xeon server chips], a pretty big deal. :)
Duke
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