From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 22 21:54:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.cybersurf.net (smtp1.cybersurf.net [209.197.145.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B5DC15053 for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 21:54:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from 01031149@3web.net) Received: from webserver ([209.197.154.211]) by smtp1.cybersurf.net (Netscape Messaging Server 4.05) with SMTP id FORXQX00.9AN for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 22:54:33 -0700 Message-Id: Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 22:55:51 -0700 X-Priority: 3 From: Duke Normandin <01031149@3web.net> X-Mailer: Mail Warrior To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: RE: Making a 56K Modem Pool Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit X-Mailer-Version: v3.55 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 01/22/2000 7:50:23 PM, "Steve Morrow" wrote: >Two 56k modems connected together will not connect higher than 33.6. All >56k modems are "one way" they only achieve those speeds downstream, not up. >In order to communicate at those speeds you would need to use a different >technology. Would the following quote from "Running a Perfect Internet Site with Linux" by Dee-Ann LeBlanc be applicable? "If you want to move up to the next step faster in connections (ISDN, which is discussed in a moment), but it is far too expensive, another alternative may be to use two 56K modems and two standard phone lines. Using a technique called EQL load balancing, you can then use the two phone lines together to double your bandwidth ( if your service provider supports this)." -duke To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message