on 6/2/04 11:14 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > At 02:30 PM -0400 06/01/2004, maxtek wrote:What are the modem speeds your getting on your 603e/v Macs?
US Robotics Courier V.Everything Modem, dialing to SNiP (a local ISP) and Earthlink -- we regularly get intial carrier speeds of 42,666> bps, which ultimately retrain to higher speeds, 52,000+.
Has anyone tried using a multi-port card to "gang" modems together? I'm under the impression, from reading I've done, that this method makes for a faster connection.....
There are two methods: Balanced routing and MultiLink.
Balanced routing is simply a bunch of circuits, be they cable, xDSL, or PPP, pumped into routing software such as IPNetRouter. By manually juggling the routing table, you can do a bit of load balancing. This gives you some improved throughput in general, when you have a large mix of network connections running. It does nothing for single-connection tasks, eg: ftp.
MultiLink - typically MultiLink PPP, aka Bonded V.90 or ISDN, is probably what you're talking about. Since the advent of xDSL, few ISPs offer it these days. It's a fancy way of offering a truely fat pipe, actually made up of smaller connections. It requires voodoo on the ISP side to handle the fan routing, and multiple ports, modems, and phone lines, on your side - plus the software on your Mac to support it. Of course, the software to do it on your Mac is no longer available (companies bankrupt, etc)...
- Dan.
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