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Anonymous   03-09-2001 at 04:48:38 PM

Im not a supertechie more of a hobby hands on man
so i`m certainlyt no expert. What i would like to know is, is there a way to combine both a cable modem internet conection and a analogaue modem connection in such a way that i can use both at the same time.
I can connect to the internet with both my cable and normal modem, but if i do that and try for instance to play a game online, only the one i last connected with is used. Since i have a 56k modem and a cable provider that sucks and i want to achieve a normal ping whilst gaming i thought hey what the heck lets combine the two.
My operating system is windows 98 se. What ive tried so far is using multilink (commonly used for combining two isdn channels), but this doesnt work. Does anybody have a clue how i can get it to work if at all ??

Hey man i dont know .. i just think i do !!

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hypnotic_kumquat   03-09-2001 at 08:09:31 PM
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You're out of luck. Mulitlinking (whether ISDN or POT) is a function supported only if both connections terminate at the same place, e.g. your local telco's POP. Plus both physical connections must be the same, e.g. ISDN or generic phone line.

You could get a router with the correct interfaces and connect both the cable and phone lines and setup load balancing, but then you'd have two IP addresses. Each time a process on your PC initiates a connection to the Internet, it would use one or the other IP address (i.e. it would use either the analog OR the cable modem.) Thus, you'd be stuck in the same situation you're in now.

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