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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (71803)	1/21/1999 1:27:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Re: "Is it possible to have two modems in a computer hooked to two phone lines" I have heard it can be done with Win98 to in effect double the data rate from a single ISP account, providing of course that the ISP supports this as well. I don't know of anyone who has actually done it. I would think that NT might support 2 phone lines to 2 different ISPs. Is that what you meant? EP

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (71803)	1/21/1999 1:37:00 PM
From: Barry Grossman	Respond to of 186894

Jim, I have a friend who has three 56k modems on his computer, one external and two internal. He has three separate phone lines and when he dials his ISP, all three connect sequentially giving him a bps connection speed equal to the sum of the three modem's connection speeds. Win 98 allows this. I haven't tried this myself yet. Has anyone on this thread done this? Barry

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (71803)	1/21/1999 1:51:00 PM
From: NITT	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

RE: "Is it possible to have two modems in a computer hooked to two phone lines..." Diamond Multimedia makes a single card with two 56K modems take a look: diamondmm.com I'm looking for a product that offers this and phone capability so I can hook both lines to the PC and have it handle answering machine, fax, and modem for all calls. Has anyone seen a product like that?

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (71803)	1/22/1999 4:27:00 AM
From: The Duke of URL©	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

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