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"Using two 56k modems at once?"

Yesterday, a mate of mine mentioned that his Dual Band Connector had bust. When I asked what such a device was, he said he uses it to use two 56k modems at once to give him a 128k connection.
Can anyone else shed a little more light on this as I'm extremely interested. He said he uses Linux and wasn't sure whether you could use Windows to do the same.

Yesterday, a mate of mine mentioned that his Dual Band Connector had bust. When I asked what such a device was, he said he uses it to use two 56k modems at once to give him a 128k connection.
Can anyone else shed a little more light on this as I'm extremely interested. He said he uses Linux and wasn't sure whether you could use Windows to do the same.

That sounds like a proky pie to me, using 2 56k modems would give you....56k even though he has two, which is nice for him, I can't see this happening, although I too am intrested in a response from someone who knows...

Surely it would go through one 56k...into the other! Maybe you can use them in parallel, but I don't see how they wouldn't conflict.

Yeah, I'm finding it quite hard to believe. If the likes of Turbonutter don't know anything about this, I'll do a little research on the net and see if I can come up with anything, for everyone's benefit.

The bandwidth cap is due to the phone line itself, not the modem, so using 2 would still be limited by the phone line's ability to carry the data. If he had 2 modems on 2 different phone lines then I suppose it's possible, although probably more trouble than it's worth.

So, whats up with that Dual band connector then? Two phone lines for 128k...hhmm

also, do broadband modem's get a phone number? because most of my favourite games only use phone number connection whereas I only have my I.P. :(

No, as they don't use a phone line...although most games should support TCP/IP play, everything since doom seems to have..

you can do it on ISDN but that different and how would he get 128k when it's 56k times 2 which is 112k.

your mate sounds like an idiot ask if ya can see it that'll be the best way to see if his telling porkys

Fair enough, although Reaper brought up the subject of the phone line limiting you to 56k. However, I thought ADSL still actually uses your phone line?

I have heard this can be done, although you need 2 phone lines and 2 modems... Will try and find the page i found on the web for ya.